How Praggnanandhaa beat Carlsen: Both experimented and had enjoyable; Pragg gained the match, Carlsen gained the event 

On the morning of his match towards World No 1 Magnus Carlsen, R Praggnanandhaa’s sister Vaishali despatched him a textual content – “Don’t worry. Just beat Magnus.” On Monday, the 17-year-old Indian chess prodigy did simply that, profitable his remaining match towards the Norwegian in a tie-breaker to safe second place within the FTX Crypto Cup. Carlsen had already gained the event after profitable Game 3 of their conflict. This was as a result of even when Praggnanandhaa made a comeback within the remaining video games, Carlsen would have gained some extent on the premise of constructing it to the tiebreaker.

With a second-place place, Praggnanandhaa takes dwelling $37,000 in prize cash. But extra importantly, he now has three wins over Carlsen within the final six months alone. It was evident that the 31-year-old was missing the motivation to go all out as soon as the win was secured within the third spherical.

“I was feeling terrible today; I didn’t get enough sleep; I was just not in good shape. I’m very happy and relieved to have won the tournament. Obviously, I would have wished to have done better today, it’s really kind of embarrassing to lose the last three games but overall, the emotions are obviously positive. I wish that I could have kept my level going right till the very end. I didn’t but nevertheless it’s a great result,” stated Carlsen to Chess.com after the collection ended.

Both gamers have been in actual fact, in need of motivation as soon as Carlsen gained Game 3. With not a lot left to play for, experiments began to happen. 16…b5 by Carlsen within the fourth recreation was a type of strikes that was extra a enjoyable try by Carlsen to place Prag underneath strain.

Praggnanandhaa’s coach RB Ramesh. (FILE)

“I think Magnus just wanted to have more fun, that’s it,” stated Praggnanandhaa. “This 16…b5 is unnecessary.  I think he just wanted to have fun and try to beat me.”

Praggnanandhaa later advised Chessbase India’s YouTube channel that he was making an attempt to maintain issues mild after the results of the event was determined within the third recreation. “This game I was just trying to exchange all the pieces. After I lost that third game, I didn’t really care whether I won or not. I was just trying to play and have fun. Even if I had lost, I wouldn’t be too sad about the result. It would have been fun to play the Armageddon round,” stated Praggnanandhaa.

In the second blitz recreation between the 2, Carlsen was all set to take the victory. But the Norwegian was unable to drive Armageddon from a profitable place after which blundered additional at hand the win to his Indian counterpart. It additionally bode effectively for the Indian GM that with time winding down, there was little to no sense of strain.

Praggnanandhaa’s coach RB Ramesh spoke on ChessBase India’s YouTube channel and rued the missed alternative that was there for his ward in his first recreation.

“In the primary recreation he was up a chunk and that was a pricey miss. Overall, I believed the sport qualities have been fairly good. He saved many tough positions. Even within the fourth spherical, which he gained, the chance that he took was not needed in any respect.

“Strictly speaking, in the rapid match it was tight but he won in the blitz. It was probably because Magnus was under pressure already after missing many chances. I think he would have been very disappointed at the way he blundered 9c.5 in the first round,” stated Ramesh.

On the morning of his match towards World No 1 Magnus Carlsen, R Praggnanandhaa’s sister Vaishali despatched him a textual content – “Don’t worry. Just beat Magnus.” On Monday, the 17-year-old Indian chess prodigy did simply that, profitable his remaining match towards the Norwegian in a tie-breaker to safe second place within the FTX Crypto Cup. Carlsen had already gained the event after profitable Game 3 of their conflict. This was as a result of even when Praggnanandhaa made a comeback within the remaining video games, Carlsen would have gained some extent on the premise of constructing it to the tiebreaker.

Congratulations to @MagnusCarlsen for profitable the FTX Crypto Cup for the second yr in a row! 👏

The World Champion completed forward of @rpragchess and @AlirezaFirouzja, regardless of dropping to the previous within the final spherical.

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— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) August 22, 2022

With a second-place place, Praggnanandhaa takes dwelling $37,000 in prize cash. But extra importantly, he now has three wins over Carlsen within the final six months alone. It was evident that the 31-year-old was missing the motivation to go all out as soon as the win was secured within the third spherical.

“I was feeling terrible today; I didn’t get enough sleep; I was just not in good shape. I’m very happy and relieved to have won the tournament. Obviously, I would have wished to have done better today, it’s really kind of embarrassing to lose the last three games but overall, the emotions are obviously positive. I wish that I could have kept my level going right till the very end. I didn’t but nevertheless it’s a great result,” stated Carlsen to Chess.com after the collection ended.

Both gamers have been in actual fact, in need of motivation as soon as Carlsen gained Game 3. With not a lot left to play for, experiments flowered. 16…b5 by Carlsen within the fourth recreation was a type of strikes that was extra a enjoyable try by Carlsen to place Prag underneath strain.

“I think Magnus just wanted to have more fun, that’s it,” stated Praggnanandhaa. “This 16…b5 is unnecessary.  I think he just wanted to have fun and try to beat me.”

Praggnanandhaa later advised Chessbase India’s YouTube channel that he was making an attempt to maintain issues mild after the results of the event was determined within the third recreation. “This game I was just trying to exchange all the pieces. After I lost that third game, I didn’t really care whether I won or not. I was just trying to play and have fun. Even if I had lost, I wouldn’t be too sad about the result. It would have been fun to play the Armageddon round,” stated Praggnanandhaa.

In the second blitz recreation between the 2, Carlsen was all set to take the victory. But the Norwegian was unable to drive Armageddon from a profitable place after which blundered additional at hand the win to his Indian counterpart. It additionally bode effectively for the Indian GM that with time winding down, there was little to no sense of strain.

Praggnanandhaa’s coach RB Ramesh spoke on ChessBase India’s YouTube channel and rued the missed alternative that was there for his ward in his first recreation.

“In the primary recreation he was up a chunk and that was a pricey miss. Overall, I believed the sport qualities have been fairly good. He saved many tough positions. Even within the fourth spherical, which he gained, the chance that he took was not needed in any respect.

“Strictly speaking, in the rapid match it was tight but he won in the blitz. It was probably because Magnus was under pressure already after missing many chances. I think he would have been very disappointed at the way he blundered 9c.5 in the first round,” stated Ramesh.