Indian chess player Ramesh Babu Pragyanananda has once again proved to be a no-go for world no.1 Magnus Carlsen. Pragnananda, Carlsen meet in Final Round 12 of 85th Tata Steel Chess Masters 2023. Best save of his career. In his second classical encounter against the world number one ranked player, Pragnananda drew a ‘classical game’ against Carl Sen.
‘I was really frustrated. I feel like I have to achieve a lot more for the position I have. But he defended well. I think it’s a bit of a backbreaker to be honest. The chance to win the tournament is gone. I don’t know what will happen tomorrow. But at the moment it is disappointing.’ said Carlsen after the match.
Previously, Pragnananda defeated Carlsen in the Air Things Masters held in February last year. Pragnananda defeated Carl Sen in the eighth round of AirThings Masters, an online chess competition. In 2013, Carl Sen After becoming the world champion, Pragyanananda became the youngest player to defeat Carl Sen in a chess competition. Beats Carl Sen. Pragnananda won against Carl Sen in the fifth round of the tournament. Pragnananda put in a brilliant performance to win over Carl Sen in the final round of the FTX Crypto Cup in August. This is Pragnananda’s third victory over this Norwegian player in 2022.
Pragnananda, a chess player from Tamil Nadu, won the Grandmaster title in 2018. He became the second youngest person to hold the Grandmaster title. Before that he also won the World Youth Chess Championship’s Under-8 title in 2013. This earned him the title of FIDE Master at the age of just seven. open Chess He also won the tournament. He played nine rounds and was leading with 7.5 points. This 16-year-old boy, another Grandmaster, his companion; Dee defeated Gukesh in the final round and emerged as the winner.
In the final round, Gukesh defeated Having made a mistake at a height, Pragnananda had no need to look back. He won easily. It is special that Pragnananda remained undefeated in all the nine rounds played in this tournament. In the last two rounds he defeated Gukesh, Mathew Cornet. (France) defeated. Before that, he won four. American The player defeated Abhimanyu Mishra.
This win gave Pragnananda another 13.2 Elo rating Got the points. Gukesh is behind with 6 points. He stood at the 17th position. GrandMaster Abhijeet Gupta secured the eighth position with 6.5 points.
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