The trainer of the mental packaging Paddy Upton was part of the D Gukesh team for the Fid World Championship, where the 18-year-old defeated the Chinese Grand Master Dingn 7.5-6.5 to become the youngest world champion in the history of chess.
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Gukesh Domomraju had capitalized on an error made by the Grand Master Chinese Ding Nether to win the Fide World Championship in Singapore in December. In the process, the 18 -year -old managing director has made history by becoming the youngest world champion in the history of sport, and only the second Indian after Viswanathan Anand to achieve the feat.
Coach of the mental packaging Paddy Upton, however, revealed an additional factor that could have contributed to the victory of Gukesh 7.5-6.5 on Ding in the classic game series “Best of 14”.
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According to Upton, who was part of the Gukesh team in the world championship, something as small as adopting a minor adjustment at the temperature of the air conditioner of his hotel room had an impact on his performance.
“A small adjustment made a difference. Gukesh said he was taking more time than usual to fall asleep, leaving him a little less rested the next day, “wrote Upton in an article on his website entitled” The Winning Mindset “.
“We have revisited his sleep hygiene plan of 15 points and found an area of improvement – reducing the temperature of his hotel room from 24 degrees C to 22 degrees C. This minor change worked and left his fresh spirit and body for when it counted the most,” added the South African.
Gukesh had hired Upton’s services in October, just over a month before the start of the world championship.
Besides Upton and his coach Grzegorz Gajewski, the Gukesh team for the world championship included Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Pentala Harikrishna, Vincent Keymer, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Jan Klimkowski.
Gukesh also received the contributions from the legendary Viswanathan Anand, who had become the first Indian to be crowned world champion when he beat Spanish director general Alexey Shirov in 2000.
After taking advantage of a break of a month after his historic triumph in Singapore, Gukesh returned to action at the Tata Steel chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee, in the Netherlands, where he finished second for the second consecutive year after losing against Comtriot R Praggnanandhaa to ruptures.
Gukesh would then participate in the opening event of the Grand Chelem Freestyle tour in Weissenhaus, Germany, where he finished eighth out of 10 participants. He will then be seen in action in the Parisian leg of the tour.
