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"I don't think it's right to call this tournament a bad one," Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa says as he talks to ESPN a little over a week after the conclusion of the biggest tournament he's played yet.
Indian chess grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa secured the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Championship in a thrilling finale, overcoming ...
Bucharest: Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France to win his first-ever tournament on the Grand Chess Tour by showcasing his supremacy in the the Superbet Classic here.
IMAGE: R Praggnanandhaa received a warm welcome as hundreds of fans gathered to receive him at the airport in Chennai on Tuesday. Photographs: Screengrab via ANI/X Newly-crowned Tata Steel Chess ...
Magnus Carlsen defeated Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in a tiebreak to become Chess World Cup champion on Thursday. After the two had drawn the opening two games of the final, Carlsen won the first of ...
With a career-high world ranking of No.8 as per the latest published list, Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa will take on American Sam Shankland in the sixth round of the Prague Masters after a rest ...
Indian chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa, known for his sharp mind and strategic brilliance on the chessboard, is now taking on a new challenge—making dosa. In a lighthearted moment shared on ...
Budapest: R Praggnanandhaa set the tone on the top board as the Indian men's team blanked Morocco 4-0, while the women romped home against Jamaica, conceding just a draw in the process ...
For a few days now, a photo of a very different kind of superstar has gone viral. A still of R Praggnanandhaa's mother Nagalaxmi breaking into a smile after her son's victory over Fabiano Caruana ...
R Praggnanandhaa reached his maiden World Cup final in 2023 For someone, who took to chess just because his parents wanted him and his sister to wean away from watching television, R ...
According to an expert, India is the new Russia of the chess world, as in the past such dominance was only shown by Russian players Teen sensation R Praggnanandhaa will enter as the favourite ...