Gukesh in 2018 (Scores & Rating)

In last week's post, Gukesh in 2018 - Age 12 (November 2024), about the early career of the new World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, I neglected to record the young prodigy's score and rating for the 17 events in the list. For this current post, I corrected the oversight.

It's worth explaining why six of the events are still missing the final score. These are events where a result was reported by TWIC on two consecutive weeks (a partial result, then the complete result), and where Gukesh was listed in the first report, but not in the second. This is because his final score was less than TWIC's cutoff to limit the number of players in the report (TWIC often lists only the top players when reporting on large tournaments, especially those using Swiss pairing systems).

It's entirely possible that Gukesh played in events where he was not listed in TWIC, because he finished lower than TWIC's cutoff. In those events, he would not appear on my initial search for events where he played.

Over the 17 tournaments, he played more than 150 games. In the first event on the 2018 list, he was rated 2362; in the last event, he was rated 2466. He started the year with a CM title and ended as an IM. In a few more months, he would earn the GM title.