Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa


Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has created a history by defeating world Champion Magnus Carlsen at the age of 16 on an online rapid chess competition. After this win he became the 3rd Indian to defeat Carlsen after Vishwanathan Anand and P Harikrishna.

He defeated Carlsen twice in 3 months, once on 20 February 2022 in an online Airthings Masters rapid tournament of the Champions Chess Tour 2022 and second time at The Chessable Masters online rapid chess tournament in May 2022.

His international career was begun in 2013 when he won the World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 title, earning him title of FIDE master at the age of 7. He won the title Under-10 in 2015. In 2016, Praggnanandhaa became the youngest international master in history, at the age of 10 years, 10 months, and 19 days.

He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the World Junior Chess Championship in November 2017, finishing fourth with 8 points and his second norm at the Heraklion Fischer Memorial GM norm tournament in Greece on 17 April 2018. On 23 June 2018, he achieved his third and final norm at the Gredine Open in Urtijëi, Italy, by defeating Luca Moroni in the eighth round to become the then second-youngest person ever to achieve the rank of grandmaster, at the age of 12 years, 10 months and 13 days. He is the fifth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster, behind Abhimanyu Mishra, Sergey Karjakin, Gukesh D, and Javokhir Sindarov.

In 2018, Praggnanandhaa was invited for a four-game rapid match against Wesley So to the Magistral de León Masters in Spain. He defeated So in game one, and after three games the score was tied. In the last game, So defeated Praggnanandhaa, winning the match.

In January 2018, Praggnanandhaa participated in Charlotte Chess Center's Winter 2018 GM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina. He tied for third place with GM Alder Escobar Forero and IM Denys Shmelov.

In July 2019, Praggnanandhaa won the Xtracon Chess Open in Denmark, scoring 8½/10 points. On 12 October 2019, he won the World Youth Championships in the Under-18 section with a score of 9/11. In December 2019, he became the second-youngest person to achieve a rating of 2600. He did this at the age of 14 years, 3 months and 24 days.

In April 2021, the first leg (out of four) of the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, a rapid online event organized by Julius Baer Group and Chess24.com for young talents. Praggnanandhaa won the Polgar Challenge by scoring 15.5/19, 1.5 points ahead of the next best placed competitors. This win helped him qualify for the next Meltwater Champions Chess Tour on 24 April 2021, where he finished in 10th place with a score of 7/15. This including wins against Teimour Radjabov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Sergey Karjakin, and Johan-Sebastian Christiansen as well as a draw against World Champion Magnus Carlsen.

After Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, Praggnanandhaa entered the Chess World Cup 2021 as the 90th seed. He defeated GM Gabriel Sargissian 2–0 in round 2, and advanced to round 4 after defeating GM Michał Krasenkow in the rapid tiebreaks in round 3. He was eliminated in round four by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

Praggnanandhaa played in the Masters section of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2022, winning games against Andrey Esipenko, Vidit Gujrathi and Nils Grandelius, finishing in 12th place with a final score of 5½.

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