Bengaluru, Oct. 26 -- Less than a month to the World Chess Championship match, and world champion D Gukesh seems to be horsing around.

Quite literally.

The 20-year-old is in on the joke. In his latest social media post, he was seen on horseback in a field, with the cheeky caption: "They said work on your knight play. instructions unclear."

Last week, he was at the movies with fellow Indian chess stars Praggnanandhaa and Vaishali, watching the latest Rajinikanth film, Jailer 2 where chess makes an appearance. In a now-viral video, they're seen laughing their heads off over a character's comically spectacular disregard for the rules of the game with unshakeable confidence - "Yaanaiya eduthomma, raajava adichomma, game-a mudichomma." (Tak...