Praggnanandhaa scores second win over Magnus Carlsen in 2022
Indian Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu has registered a second victory over world champion Magnus Carlsen in 2022. Norway’s Carlsen made a big mistake in the fifth round of the Chessball Masters and Praggnanandhaa took advantage of it to score a victory. With this win, Praggnanandhaa’s hopes of reaching the knockout in the online rapid chess tournament remain. This is the second time in three months that the 16 year old has defeated Carlsen. Earlier in the month of February, he defeated world champion Carlsen at the AirThings Masters. It was his first win over Carlsen. Now three months later, he has repeated history again.
Praggnanandhaa and Carlsen clashed in the fifth round of this tournament with a prize money of 150 thousand US dollars (Rs 1.16 crore). The match was heading towards a draw, but Carlsen made a big mistake in the 40th move. He put his black horse in the wrong place. After this the Indian player did not give him a chance to return and suddenly he had to face defeat.
After winning the match due to Carlson’s mistake, Praggnanandhaa said that ‘he does not want to win the match in this manner.’
Carlson is at number two
Carlsen is in second place after the end of the second day of the Chessball Masters tournament. China’s Wei Yi is at the first place in this tournament. At the same time, Praggnanandhaa has 12 points. World’s youngest Grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra is also a part of this tournament, in which 16 players are participating.
In the eighth round of the AirThings Masters, India’s teenage chess sensation made a big upset defeating world champion Carlsen. He was the youngest player of this tournament. Carlsen made many mistakes in front of the Indian Grandmaster and eventually lost the match. Earlier these two players had met thrice and Carlsen had won all three times, but in the fourth match the Indian player won. Carlsen then avenged the previous defeat by defeating Praggnanandhaa 3-0 in the Oslo E Sports Cup held in April. Now Pragyanand has won again.
