India, Jan. 27 -- D Gukesh has been hogging the spotlight at the ongoing Tata Steel Masters chess tournament. The reigning world champion has been the main attraction, and has been flocked by fans on his way out of the venue everyday. The 18-year-old became the youngest-ever world champion last month when he defeated Ding Liren in Singapore.

The championship reached the decisive fourteenth game, and it was going according to Liren's plan, who was trying to enforce a tie-breaker. But a massive blunder by the Chinese grandmaster in the 55th move saw him resign in a historic defeat to Gukesh. But after the win, Gukesh knew that he still wasn't the best in the world, and he revealed that it was Magnus Carlsen, who famously decided to not def...