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India’s Grandmaster R Praganananda defeated the world number 1 Magnus Carlson at the Freestyle Chase Grand Slam Tour in Las Vegas. 19 -year -old Pragnananda defeated the five -time world champion in only 39 tricks.
Carlson was defeated by Pragnananda in the fourth round of the group stage of the tournament. In this tournament, every player gets 10 minutes and 10 seconds on every trick. Norway’s Grandmaster Carlson has recently defeated India’s current World Champion D Gukesh.
Praganananda jointly reached the top With a win against Magnus Carlson in the fourth round, R Pragananda has jointly topped the tournament with 4.5 points with 4.5 points. With this victory, Pagnananda managed to defeat Carlson in the three formats classical, rapid and blitz.
After this victory, Pagnananda (left) has jointly topped the tournament with 4.5 points.
Praganananda has won three out of four rounds Planananda started the tournament by playing a draw against Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdotsattorov. After this, in the second round, he was confronted with Asaubayeva in which he managed to win. Pragnananda, retaining his rhythm from here, defeated Keymer in the third round while playing with black pieces. At the same time, he has again reached the top position in the fourth round with the defeat of World No-1 player Magnus Carlson.
Father works in bank, mother housewife Pagnananda was born on 10 August 2005 in Chennai. His father works at the State Corporation Bank, while mother Nagalakshmi is a housewife. He has an elder sister Vaishali R. Vaishali also plays Chase.
Pagnananda’s name first came into the limelight when he won the World Youth Chase Championship at the age of 7. He then received the title of Federation International Des Achex (FIDE) Master. Praganananda became the youngest international master of chess in 2016 at the age of 10. He became a Grandmaster at the age of 12.
Earlier, he has also won the title of becoming the Youngest International Master in 2016. He was only 10 years old then. Grandmaster in Chase is called players with the tallest category. The category below is that of the International Master.
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