After he was crowned the world champion on Thursday, Gukesh named Keymer, the German sensation, as one of the players who was a part of his back-room team
Gukesh D’s opening gambits and match strategies that ended dethroned Ding Liren and crowned him as the youngest-ever chess world champion were prepared at a hotel room in Spain’s coastal town of Manilva.
The work behind the scenes often went late into night and was exhaustive, Vincent Keymer, one of Gukesh’s seconds for his World Championship match against Ding Liren, revealed in an interview with German publication Der Spiegel.
We worked late into the night: Gukesh’s second Vincent Keymer reveals behind-the-scenes preparation that led to World Championship win
