Chess Olympiad: Gukesh stuns Shirov as India B stay in lead with an all-win record
Mahabalipuram, Aug. 3 -- D Gukesh doesn't seem to care for reputations. His adversary on Tuesday was Alexei Shirov, a former world No. 2 and a World Championship runner-up. At 50, the player from Latvia, who is representing Spain at the 44th Chess Olympiad here, still exudes an intimidating aura. But none of it came in the way of the 16-year-old chess prodigy from Chennai notching up his fifth consecutive victory in the tournament. It lifted Gukesh's live rating to 2714. He first crossed a rating of 2700 last month, becoming the third youngest to do so....
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