🎯Do you think Gukesh deserves to be World Champion?

I think he really deserves to be the world champion, fair and square but many criticize the world championship matches not being as professional as they used to be.
Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, didn't consider the 2024 World Championship match between India's D Gukesh and China's Ding Liren to be a true World Championship. Kasparov said that Magnus Carlsen's decision not to defend his title in 2023 meant that the traditional form of the world championship had ended

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Gukesh is the official world champion. He has followed all the rules to archieve that title. Thus he deserves it. Also for a chessplayer he is still very young and may yet breach the 2800 border of ELO rating that qualifies the strongest players. He probably has to get there to be able to keep the title.

That said if you just ask me who the world champion is, I may just answer Magnus Carlsen, out of habit, and because Carlsen IS the currently strongest chessplayer, still with quite a gap to the second strongest chessplayer in the Fide rating.

https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml

He deserved to be world champion he won fairly.

Magnus triggered a butterfly effect

Simply...he deserves it.

I think it was fair

More than you deserve to be called a chess player.

See? Everything is relative

I mean i was rooting for Ding, but Gukesh fairly won candidates and outlasted Ding in the final round, was this the best world championship? in my opinion no, Magnus is still number 1 but clearly he wants to distance himself from classical chess which i respect since we all know too much chess and stress can cause the ficsher effect and he seems to not want to make chess take too much if his life, nonetheless Gukesh deserves it he won fair and square.

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He won. Which means he deserves it.

Of course he deserves it. He won the title fairly. But it's not the first time the world champion is not the best player in the world.

Oof. Shots fired.

I mean you can only beat who's in front of you, but imo, if Gukesh almost lost to not 100% Ding Liren, he would have lost to everyone rated above Ding, such as Magnus or Fabi.

No, saws revved up

I mean, he beat Ding, so maybe?

Gukesh is the current FIDE sanctioned World Champion after beating reigning World Champion Ding in their recent match. There is no reason to say Gukesh doesn’t deserve the title. What people may think concerning who is the best in the world is relative to how they weigh factors like titles, ratings, and recent tournament accomplishments. To that, opinions may vary and include Magnus.

It’s important to remember that not all FIDE World Champions have been rated number one during their reign. Boris never was ranked number one when he was World Champion as Bobby held that spot when FIDE introduced ratings in 1971, and while Vladimir best Garry in their match in 2000 and later on beat Veselin in 2006 reunification match to become the FIDE World Champion, he likewise never reached the number one rated player in the world. Now, Ding and presently Gukesh also have not reached number one rated while World Champion, although Gukesh may still do so in the future, we will see. There are additional examples of players being FIDE World Champion while not the number one rated player as well, but the above are undisputed examples of World Champions and having never reached the number one rating while holding the title. For example, former World Champion Magnus, when challenging Vishwanathan for the title in 2013, was rated number one for several years before that match to become World Champion.

The process of winning the World Championship title isn’t simply who’s the highest rated at the time, but who participates, has the stamina and perseverance to endure the qualification process to compete for the title and beat whomever their opponent is in order to win it. You have to play better than dozens of other players for a significant amount of time to accomplish it. In that respect, they deserve their claim to that title, whatever their rating may be, especially if the highest rated player has opted not to participate in the process and compete. You can’t beat players who aren’t there competing for the title themselves.