16 YEAR OLD BOY RAMESHBABU DEFEATED MIGHTY MAGNUS CARLENS

(The Quiver) : 16 – year old , Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa of India scored a stunning victory over reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in 39 moves with black pieces in the eighth round of the preliminary stage of the Airthings Masters chess tournament being held online. The event is held under the time control of 15 minutes per game per player, with a ten second increment after each move.

Carlsen is considered to be one of the greatest players ever, expected to break most of the records of longevity and peaks of chess. ‘Pragg’ with a current rating of 2612 can be considered one of the most noteworthy conquerors of the world champion. with this Pragg is the third Indian apart from Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna , who defeated Carlsen in atournament game.

Anan praising Pragg told, “I am obviously very happy with Pragg’s performance yesterday. His fighting spirit is really something.”