16-year-old Praggnanandhaa, defeated World no.1 Champion in CHESS

Ground Report | New Delhi: Who is Praggnanandhaa CHESS; 16-year-old Indian Grandmaster R Pragyanand stunned the field by defeating 31-year-old Magnus Carlsen, world No.1 Chess champion Magnus Carlsen, with 39 black piece strikes in the 8th round of the Internet fast chess match AirThings Masters.

Carlsen had 3 wins in a row as he unluckily cranked up the gears. But towards 16-year-old Pragyanand, he erred horribly, and the Indian superstar clinched the victory.

According to a PTI, Praggnanandhaa lies in joint 12th spot after eight rounds with eight points. His spectacular win over Carlsen comes after a moderate run in the earlier rounds, which included a solitary victory over Lev Aronian, two draws and four defeats.

The 16-year-old drew against Anish Giri and Quang Liem Le and lost to Eric Hansen, Ding Liren, Jan-Kryzstof Duda and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Norwegian world no 1 Carlsen defeated Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi at the world championship match a few months ago and is now on top of the standings with 19 points followed by Ding Liren and Hansen (both on 15 points).

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Airthings Masters is a 16-player online rapid tournament, a player gets three points for a win and one for a draw in the preliminary rounds. Seven more rounds remain in the preliminary phase.

After Abhimanyu Mishra, Sergei Karjakin, Gukesh D, and Javokhir Sindarov, Pragganandha is the fifth-youngest player to become a Grandmaster. He first rose to fame in 2013 after winning the World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 title, which earned him the title of FIDE Master at the age of seven.

Who is R Pragyananand?

A chess prodigy, he is the fifth youngest person to have achieved the title of Grandmaster (GM) after Abhimanyu Mishra, Sergei Karjakin, Gukesh D and Javokhir Sindarov.

Pragyanand won the 2013 World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 title, earning him the title of FIDE Master at the age of 7. He won the Under-10 title in 2015.

In 2016, Pragyananand became the youngest international master in history at the age of 10 years, 10 months and 19 days.

In April 2021, Pragyanand won the Polgar Challenge, the first leg (out of four) of the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, a rapid online event for young talent organized by the Julius Baer Group and Chess24.com.

Pragyanand played in the Masters section of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2022, winning games against Andrey Esipenko, Vidit Gujrathi and Nils Grandelius, finishing 12th with a final score of 5.5 points.

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