R Praggnanandhaa, 16, beat the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, first in the world ranking, at chess in an online tournament. The prodigious boy belongs to a new generation of Indians who embody the country's growing influence in chess,
He is only 16 years old and has defeated a world chess champion: R Praggnanandhaa, a true Indian prodigy, has beaten Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian first in the world chess ranking, in an online tournament.
The very young player, originally from the southern Indian city of Chennai, is no stranger to success. At 10 he had in fact become the youngest International Master in chess history. Two years later, in 2018, he had become the second youngest chess master in the world.
Now the prodigious teenager had fulfilled his "biggest dream", as the BBC reports, by becoming the third Indian to beat the 32-year-old Norwegian grandmaster.
India is emerging in the game of chess: the Asian country currently has 73 great masters, up from 20 in 2007 and two of them are women, among which Koneru Humpy, 34, 2019 world champion in rapid chess, stands out. variant of the game in which a player must finish the game in a time between 10 and 60 minutes.
Praggnanandhaa is therefore a very young man belonging to a new generation of Indians who embody the country's growing influence in chess. And that he is undoubtedly a prodigy.
Congratulations boy!
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Fonte: BBC / ChessBase India/Youtube
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