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To be able to bag my first world title is special,” said Gukesh, who bagged his maiden GM norm earlier this year. CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s famous assembly line churned out three more chess champs on Thursday. Despite fulfilling all the criteria, I still had to go and bag a GM norm in an overseas tournament which I have done now,” said Karthikeyan. He faced France’s Timothe Razafindratsima in the final round.“He is a strong opponent and it felt great to defeat him. I am extremely happy that Karthikeyan sir also became a GM..