After World Championship and Khel Ratna, started setting new goals for 2025: Gukesh

Bengaluru. D Gukesh has achieved many achievements within the final one month together with just lately being chosen for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award after successful the World Championship however the chess prodigy is now able to face a ‘difficult’ 12 months in 2025. Wants to reset your focus and goals. Gukesh will take part within the Tata Steel match ranging from January 17 in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, which may even characteristic high gamers like Anish Giri, Arjun Erigesi, Fabiano Caruana and R Praggnanandhaa.

“Yes, 2025 will present a lot of challenges,” Gukesh informed the media throughout a felicitation ceremony organized by Westbridge Capital on Sunday. There will likely be lots of new and attention-grabbing tournaments. The World Championship is now a factor of the previous. I’m very blissful to win this and all of the awards. ”He mentioned, ”But now I’ve started occupied with new goals, new tournaments and new methods of preparation. The aim and imaginative and prescient will stay the identical. To give my greatest, preserve enhancing myself and win as many tournaments as doable. “So I’m looking forward to learning a lot, making a lot of improvements,” Gukesh mentioned. Hopefully it will likely be a enjoyable 12 months with a lot of good outcomes. ,

However, Gukesh can have the ‘tag’ of world champion and there will likely be lots of expectations as nicely. But the 19-year-old participant is prepared for it. He mentioned, “Yes, I’ve turn out to be accustomed to being within the limelight for a while now. Obviously this may enhance much more after the World Championship. But the issues I bear in mind are to maintain enhancing myself and settle for failures. Gukesh mentioned, “I have high expectations from myself. So I guess my goal is to meet my own expectations rather than the expectations of others. ,

But has he been able to handle the praise that has followed this title? “I thought winning the World Championship would be like the Candidates Tournament but it would definitely be more than that,” he said. I am happy that I am getting this honor and limelight. But I think these things can be managed with training. But after the (World Championship) match, I also needed time to recover. I have started some training. But it will soon become serious. ,

Five-time world champion and Gukesh’s mentor Vishwanathan Anand said his disciple’s victory has again shifted the focus towards chess. “I think the focus has shifted back to chess,” Anand said. If you track it down, chances are there’s an Indian playing in every tournament you’re excited to watch. ”He said, ”Gukesh will definitely lead it, especially being the world champion. But now people are interested to see if any Indians will play in the tournament. And the second impact, perhaps even more profound, is that young players will be inspired to take up the sport.

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