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The Times of India
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Sport
Shrivathsan S | TNN

Young Gukesh did not use chess engines; family, coach lent the fuel

D Gukesh Vishnu Prasanna ENT Ding Liren Chennai Rajinikanth Sachin Tendulkar Viswanathan Anand Game 14 Singapore

CHENNAI: Mere hours after D Gukesh pounced on a horrific lapse by Ding Liren in Game 14 of the World Chess Championship in Singapore on Thursday, and then like any boy true to his age, burst into tears from all the pent-up emotion, a video from 2018 started doing the rounds on social media.

Soon gone viral, it was reminiscent of those similar grainy videos embedded in our consciousness - the 1989 news clip of a fresh-faced Sachin Tendulkar, before his selection to the Indian senior team; a 10-year-old Diego Maradona in 1971, effortlessly juggling the football and telling the interviewer that his ambition was to win the World Cup, or "Copa del Mundo," as he would call it in Spanish.

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