Chess World Cup 2023 Final Live Updates, Praggnanandhaa vs Carlsen: Can Pragg create historical past?

R Praggnanandhaa: The OG, unique little one prodigy, now challenger to World No 1 Magnus Carlsen

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup 2023 Final Live.

In the post-pandemic world, a brand new tidal wave of Indian youngsters had swamped the chess panorama, however the 18-year-old R Praggnanandhaa stays the OG, the unique little one prodigy. The different brilliant younger stars – D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Nihal Sarin – are all strolling the trail paved by the Chennai boy who goes by the title of Pragg on the worldwide chess circuit.

On Monday, Pragg nudged a reminder by downing the reigning US chess champion Fabiano Caruana through the tiebreaker to enter the ultimate in Baku, the place Magnus Carlsen, the fashionable day chess genius, one other OG, awaits him. Befittingly, Viswanathan Anand, who breathlessly tweeted about Pragg’s progress, can be moved to submit: “what a performance”.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic introduced over-the-board chess tournaments to a grinding halt, Pragg was India’s brightest star. He turned a world grasp on the age of 10, the youngest on this planet to take action; turned a GM on the age of 12 in 2018, the second youngest participant to take action on the time. Sarin and Erigaisi adopted on his heels in the identical 12 months earlier than D Gukesh turned a GM in 2019. Pragg reached the 2600 mark within the ELO score on the age of 14, as soon as once more a world file on the time. (READ MORE)

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