Bharat’s 18-year-old Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa on Monday made historical past via qualifying for the general of the FIDE International Cup chess match. He surprised international Incorrect.3 Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 by the use of the tie-break within the semi-finals to arrange a top collision with international primary Magnus Carlsen of Norway. He has now turn out to be the 3rd youngest participant nearest the mythical Bobby Fischer and Carlsen to qualify for the Applicants match.
Nearest the two-game classical sequence ended 1-1, the 18-year-old Indian prodigy outlasted the highly-rated American GM in a fight of wits in a nerve-wracking tie-breaker. Within the ultimate starting on Tuesday, Praggnanandhaa will tackle five-times name winner Carlsen, who beat Azerbaijan’s Nijat Abasov 1.5-0.5 in his semifinal.
Follwing the win, Bharat’s chess legend Viswanathan Anand congratulated Praggnanandhaa.
Pragg is going via to the general! He beats Fabiano Caruana within the tiebreak and can face Magnus Carlsen now.
What a efficiency!@FIDE_chess #FIDEWorldCup2023
— Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking) August 21, 2023
“I didn’t expect to play Magnus in this tournament at all because the only way I could play him was in the final, and I didn’t expect to be in the final. I will just try to give my best and see how it goes!,” he mentioned nearest reserving a place within the top collision.
“It feels really good to qualify for the Candidates; I really wanted to fix this spot.” With the 2 25’+10″ games ending at 1-all, Praggnanandhaa prevailed in the first 10’+10″ tournament towards Caruana to get inside of a draw of putting in place a last collision with international Incorrect.1 Carlsen.
“Pragg goes through to the final! He beats Fabiano Caruana in the tiebreak and will face Magnus Carlsen now. What a performance!,” chess legend Viswanathan Anand posted on social networking website online ‘X’, previously Twitter.
Within the first tournament of tie-break, the Indian GM withstood a accumulation of drive from Caruana and hung on for a attract a thrilling stumble upon. The second one speedy tournament too noticed a indistinguishable end result, pushing the semifinals to the ten’+10′ sequence.
Praggnanandhaa has been in a affluent prosperous vein of mode within the International Cup and his greatest scalp prior to Caruana used to be some other American Hikaru Nakamura, the sector Incorrect.2 and second-seed, following which he prohibited compatriot Arjun Erigaisi.
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