16-year-old Indian grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh continues to shine achieving his fourth consecutive triumph on the soil of Spain. After the victories at the 1st Chessable Sunway Formentera Chess Festival 2022, 1st Menorca Chess Open 2022, the 48th La Roda Open 2022, Gukesh today won the XIV Cerrado Ciudad de Gijo (scroll down for final rankings). Altogether with good performance at the Sharjah Chess Masters, Gukesh added a total of 48.2 ELO points to his rating and leaped to the second position of the live juniors rating list with 2693.6 live rating. Read more: Dommaraju Gukesh is now the second strongest junior in the world
Dommaraju Gukesh is the youngest Indian chess player to break into World Top 100 and he is only 6.4 points away from becoming the 6th Indian to cross 2700. Gukesh will in three weeks have his debut in the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 playing the second board for the Indian B team.
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XIV Cerrado Ciudad de Gijo – Final rankings:
Pos.
Tit.
Name
Fed.
FIDE
Pts.
1
GM
Gukesh D
IND
2684
8.0
2
GM
Fier, Alexandr
BRA
2567
6.5
3
IM
Gines Esteo, Pedro Antonio
ESP
2455
6.0
4
GM
Martinez Duany, Lelys Stanley
CUB
2497
6.0
5
GM
Delgado Ramirez, Neuris
PAR
2614
5.5
6
IM
Garrido Outon, Alex
ESP
2436
4.0
7
WIM
Forgas Moreno, Yaniela
CUB
2343
3.5
8
FM
Alvarez Fernandez, Enrique
ESP
2329
3.0
9
IM
Panelo, Marcelo
ARG
2383
1.5
10
IM
Tejedor Fuente, Enrique
ESP
2419
1.0
.