Steinitz

"It's absolutely infuriating that a treatable condition like this is ignored and that women are put on the scrap heap," said Lipoedema UK's head of research Dr Lesley Steinitz.

Gukesh is the 18th world champion since Wilhelm Steinitz won what is considered the first title match way back in 1886.

The young mathematician would wrest the world chess title from Austria’s Wilhelm Steinitz in 1894 and hold the crown for a record 27 years before he was dethroned by Jose Raul Capablanca in 1921.

A surgeon by trade, Pollock had a so-so tournament record, including an 11th place finish out of 20 in the famous 1889 American Chess Congress in New York to pick a challenger to titleholder Wilhelm Steinitz.

More often, however, “it is everyday situations in which Jews are confronted with antisemitism,” Benjamin Steinitz, the head of RIAS, told reporters in Berlin.