2023-08-22 21:26:05
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
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Baku (Azerbaijan) drew in the first game of the Chess World Cup Final. India’s teenage prodigy R Pragnananda defeated Norway’s five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen. After 35 moves, both of them decided to end the game in a draw. The second match will be held today. World Cup to the winners. If the match is tied, the winner will be decided by a tiebreaker tomorrow. The 18-year-old was neither surprised nor nervous regarding the decisive battle on the world stage. Confident ladies with white collars. No. 1 Carlson also did not take Pragnananda lightly. Both started cautiously and finished. Pragnananda entered the final for the first time following defeating world number three Fabio Caruana in the semi-finals. Viswanathan is the first Indian to achieve this feat following Anand. Anand was the winner in 2000 and 2002. It was a league-cum-knockout match in which 24 players participated. Since 2005, the World Cup has been on a knockout basis. This time 206 players have lined up. The top three finishers are eligible to play in the next year’s Candidates Tournament. Pragnanand can also play in this tournament to find the opponent of the reigning world champion. He is the third youngest player to get this opportunity. Magnus Carlsen and Bobby Fischer have achieved this feat at the age of sixteen. In the losers final, host Azerbaijan’s Nijat Abasov defeated America’s Fabiano Caruana. If they get a draw today, Nijit will get third place. Read on deshabhimani.com
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