World chess championship: It is Gukesh’s form and youth against Ding’s experience and fighting spirit

By our Special Correspondent

On a December day in the Singapore island of Sentosa, D. Gukesh could understand what poet William Wordsworth meant when he wrote, The Prelude, about being alive and young during the French Revolution. If Gukesh triumphs in the World Chess Championship match, which begins from today, he would be writing another glorious chapter of India’s own chess revolution.