The 18-year-old is the youngest player to reach a chess World Cup final.
CHENNAI: India’s teen chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa arrived home to celebration today, with media jostling to catch a glimpse of the newly minted star who faced international No 1 Magnus Carlsen in the World Cup final.
He earned praise from chess legend Garry Kasparov who said Pragg was “very tenacious in difficult positions”. Pragg’s success has been fuelled by the cooking of his mother Nagalakshmi, who accompanies him on chess tournaments with pots and southern Indian seasonings to make his favourite meal of rice and spicy rasam or sambhar soup.
“He was always a bright student and a jovial child,” Thiagarajan, who coached him at his academy until he was 10, told AFP.
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