World Chess Champion 2025. Game 5 of the world chess championship in singapore nearly delivered a third decisive result in a row featuring gukesh d with the white pieces and ding liren with the black pieces. Gukesh, who won the 14th game against liren after 58 moves in four hours, is the 18th world chess champion overall.

The world championship match consists of 14 games. Before gukesh’s feat on thursday, the legendary garry kasparov of russia was the youngest world chess champion when he won the title at the age of 22, dethroning anatoly.