The 31-year-old Norwegian, who has dominated International Chess Federation ranking for 12 years, defeats the 18-year-old Indian.
Top-ranked Magnus Carlsen of Norway has won the chess FIDE World Cup by defeating India’s Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.
The 32-year-old Norwegian, who has dominated the International Chess Federation’s ranking for more than 12 years, defeated the 18-year-old Indian in a final played over three days at Baku in Azerbaijan on Thursday.
The final went into a two-game tie-break after the first two rounds failed to produce a winner. Carlsen won the first game and the second game ended in a draw, handing a win to the grandmaster.
The 31-year-old Norwegian has met his younger nemesis on a number of occasions and was notably beaten by him at the Airthings Masters rapid chess tournament in February 2022.
The then 16-year-old was the youngest player ever to defeat Carlsen until October, when another Indian teenager, Donnarumma Gukesh, broke the record.
In his run to the final, Praggnanandhaa beat world number two Fabiano Caruana of the United States in the semifinal as well as world number three Hikaru Nakamura, also of the US, in an earlier round.
Praggnanandhaa’s rise to fame began in 2016, when he became the youngest International Master in history at age 10 and was earmarked by local chess officials as one for the future.
Growing up under the shadow of his sister Vaishali Rameshbabu, a local chess champion, Praggnanandhaa began playing the game at the age of three with encouragement from his parents.
By the age of seven, he had earned the title of FIDE Master, the third-highest title a chess player can achieve after the Grandmaster and International Master titles.
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