India’s teen prodigy R Praggnanandhaa becomes youngest player to beat World No 1 Magnus Carlsen

India’s teen prodigy R Praggnanandhaa becomes youngest player to beat World No 1 Magnus Carlsen

• India’s teen chess Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa created history as he defeated world number one chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, of Norway in an online chess tournament on February 20, 2022.
• The 16-year-old Pragg achieved the feat in the eighth round of the Airthings Masters, an online rapid chess tournament, in 39 moves with black pieces.
• The Airthings Masters is the first of the nine events of the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, being held from February to November 2022. 
• With this, Pragg became the youngest player to beat Carlsen since the Norwegian became World Champion in 2013.
• Pragg is also only the third Indian grandmaster to win against Magnus Carlsen apart from Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna.

Points to Remember:

1. Which Indian chess player became the youngest to beat world number one chess champion, Magnus Carlsen?
2. World number one, Magnus Carlsen is from which country?
3. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa hails from Chennai, Tamil Nadu
4. He became  fifth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster in 2018