On Friday, Grandmaster (GM) and 17-year-old D. Gukesh managed to achieve a feat that was registered only for a day on March 15, 2016, by then 29-year-old Indian GM P. Harikrishna. Gukesh’s win over Azerbaijan GM Misratdin Iskandarov in the FIDE World Cup was enough for him to lift his ELO live ratings to 2756 points, which helped him leapfrog Indian legend GM Viswanathan Anand to become the India No. 1 in chess (this will not be official until the end of the month when FIDE’s releases its list) GM Harikrishna had also managed to do this, but his feat was overturned within a day when Anand won back his spot on March 16, 2016.
Table 1 | The table shows the top five players from India at various points of time