Who is pragganandhaa ?
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Rameshbabu pragganandhaa is an Indian chess master
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In this Indian name, the name Rameshbabu is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Praggnanandhaa.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
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Praggnanandhaa at Tata Steel Chess 2019
Born 10 August 2005 (age 13)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Title Grandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating 2540 (July 2019)
Peak rating 2539 (January 2019)
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he is the fourth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster (GM), behind Sergey Karjakin, Gukesh D and Javokhir Sindarov.[1]
Contents
1 Chess career
2 Personal life
3 References
4 External links
Chess career
Praggnanandhaa is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He won the World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 title in 2013 earning him the title of FIDE Master at the age of 7. He also won the Under-10 title in 2015.[2]
In 2016, Praggnanandhaa became the youngest International Master in history, at the age of 10 years, 10 months, and 19 days.[3][4] He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the World Junior Chess Championship in November 2017, finishing 4th with 8 points.[5] He bagged his second norm at the Heraklion Fischer Memorial GM Norm tournament in Greece on 17 April 2018.[6] On 23 June 2018 he achieved his third and final GM norm at the Gredine Open in Urtijëi by defeating Luca Moroni in the eighth round to become, at the age of 12 years, 10 months and 13 days, the then second-youngest person ever to achieve GM status (Sergey Karjakin achieved the title at the age of 12 years and 7 months).[7]
In 2018, he was invited to the Leon Masters 2018 for a four-game rapid match against Wesley So. So was expected to win comfortably, but the 12-year-old Praggnanandhaa surprised chess enthusiasts by defeating So in game one, and after three games the score was tied at 1½–1½. In the last game, So defeated Praggnanandhaa, thus winning the match 2½–1½.[8]
Personal life
Praggnanandhaa lives in the suburb of Padi in Chennai. His father K.Ramesh works at a bank and his mother is a homemaker. His elder sister, Vaishali Rameshbabu, is a two-time youth chess champion.