KOLKATA: It took more than 36 years for India to get a new No. 1 player in chess as D Gukesh replaced five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand from the perch last month. But the Chennai boy is not sure how long his reign at the top will last.
“It’s difficult to say,” he said after the completion of the rapid event of the Tata Steel Chess India tournament at the Bhasha Bhawan in the National Library of India campus here on Thursday.