Chess World Cup 2023 Final: Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa finished second in FIDE World Cup. After three days and four games of intensely nervy chess across two formats, Magnus Carlsen finally managed to win the FIDE World Cup for the first time in his career. Carlsen won the final against Praggnanandhaa, but not until the 18-year-old teenager dragged him through the tie-breaker. Carlsen was declared the winner after the second game of the tiebreaker. The two players had each played one draw.
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Praggnanandha, who turned 18 during the World Cup, was the youngest World Cup finalist ever, and is the youngest World Cup winner. Seeded 31, Pragg is also the lowest seed to make the final of the World Cup. Praggnanandhaa became a GM at the age of 12. He was doing well before the COVID-19 epidemic, which brought the world to a halt. But the Chennai adolescent took use of the opportunity, honing his talents in online tournaments.
About the Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became an international master at the age of 10, the youngest at the time to do so, and a grandmaster at the age of 12, the second-youngest at the time to do so. At the age of 16, he became the youngest player to defeat then-world champion Magnus Carlsen in a rapid game at the Airthings Masters Rapid Chess Tournament on 22 February 2022 (a record since surpassed by Gukesh D on 16 October 2022).