Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju has credited Magnus Carlsen for the victory that topped him the World Chess Champion this week.

Dommaraju, 18, defeated defending champion Ding Liren of China in Singapore on Thursday to turn into the 18th undisputed world champion in historical past.

He additionally turns into the youngest ever champion, taking that title from Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he gained in 1985.

Dommaraju burst into tears after Liren provided his hand in resignation and walked away shaking his head in disappointment.

Talking after his victory, Dommaraju stated his journey had “simply began” and his “purpose was to play within the high degree for the longest time potential”.

“I’ve been dreaming about this second for 10 years!”

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“Turning into the world champion doesn’t imply I’m the most effective participant on the planet. Clearly, there may be Magnus Carlsen and he’ll all the time be a motivating issue for me,” he stated on Thursday.

As a seven-year-old, Dommaraju watched Carlsen finish Indian chess wizard Viswanathan Anand’s reign because the world champion.

The 2013 match was held in his hometown in Chennai and Dommaraju was within the viewers.

“I used to be within the stands and I used to be trying contained in the glass field and I believed it’d be so cool to be inside someday,” he stated. “And when Magnus gained, I believed I actually needed to be the one to convey again the title to India and this dream that I had like greater than 10 years in the past has been the one most vital factor in my life up to now.”

Dommaraju would go on to turn into a chess grandmaster at 12.

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It was a mistake by the Chinese language contender that confirmed Dommaraju’s victory with a closing rating of seven.5 to six.5 after a five-hour match.

The error put the Indian in a decisive place the place he might promote a pawn to the queen and ship checkmate to the king.

“I used to be completely in shock once I realised that I made a blunder,” Liren stated after the sport.

“His facial features confirmed that he was very pleased and excited and I spotted I made a blunder. It took a while to comprehend it.”

Dommaraju stated it took him a second to understand the error.

“At first, I didn’t see that I used to be profitable. After I realised that I used to be profitable it was the most effective second of my life,” he stated.

The victory made him solely the second Indian to take the title after Anand.

“It’s a proud second for chess, a proud second for India,” Mr Anand, a mentor to {the teenager}, posted on X, “and for me, a really private second of satisfaction.”

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi congratulated Dommaraju on his win. “Historic and exemplary!” the Indian prime minister stated on X. “Congratulations to Gukesh D on his outstanding accomplishment. That is the results of his unparalleled expertise, laborious work and unwavering willpower.”

Dommaraju was born within the southern metropolis of Chennai, the chess capital of India. He didn’t come from a household of chess gamers, nevertheless. His father is a surgeon and his mom a medical professor.

It was solely after he was enrolled in chess lessons at college that his expertise was obvious and his coaches urged his household to place him in skilled coaching.

He was in highschool in 2019 when he grew to become a chess grandmaster, the third-youngest in historical past.

His world championship victory earns him $2.5m (£1.96m) in prize cash.