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Chess World Cup Final Live updates: ‘We are proud of Praggnanandhaa’: PM Modi hails Praggnanandhaa

“We are proud of Praggnanandhaa for his remarkable performance at the FIDE World Cup! He showcased his exceptional skills and gave a tough fight to the formidable Magnus Carlsen in the finals. This is no small feat. Wishing him the very best for his upcoming tournaments,” the Indian Prime Minister said in his special tweet for Praggnanandhaa.

Aug 24, 2023 6:19 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: That's it from us!

R Praggnanandhaa scripted a fairy tale by reaching the final after beating two of the top three in the world. In the final, though, he came up against a player who has ended many a fairy tale run in the past. And yet, Pragg made a good case of himself against Magnus Carlsen and it pretty much shows that sky is the limit for him in his career. He leaves the tournament with a runners-up tag and an elusive place in the Candidates tournament.

Aug 24, 2023 6:13 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: A glimpse at the prize money

For finishing second in the FIDE World Cup 2023, Praggnanandhaa has earned a whopping sum of USD 80,000 (approximately ₹66,13,444). Norway's Carlsen is taking home USD 110K (approximately ₹90,93,551) for winning the World Cup title in Baku.

Aug 24, 2023 5:57 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: More reactions

Aug 24, 2023 5:50 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: Praggnanandhaa's coach has his say

Grandmaster RB Ramesh has been Praggnanandhaa's coach for 10 years and has been guiding his ward in this tournament from Chennai.

Aug 24, 2023 5:41 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Vishy's thoughts

The legendary Viswanathan Anand has his say on the final.

Aug 24, 2023 5:25 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Caruana wins the 3rd place match

Fabiano Caruana, whom Praggnanandhaa had stunned in the semi-final, has beaten Nijat Abasov and has taken the third place.

Aug 24, 2023 5:18 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: Pragg ends runner-up

One has to remember that the young Indian is already the only one from his country apart from Viswanathan Anand to have reached the Candidates tournament by virtue of reaching the final. He beat Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, two players in the top three apart from Carlsen who is the top ranked player. Carlsen discusses the board briefly with Pragg before they walk off.

Aug 24, 2023 5:09 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Praggnanandhaa takes the draw, Magnus Carlsen wins the World Cup!

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup final highlights: Pragg finishes runner-up after Carlsen wins final (9)

It had come down to Pragg needing Carlsen to make an absolutely horrendous error to stand a chance at winning it. He decides to shake hands and so Magnus Carlsen has finally added the World Cup to his overflowing trophy cabinet.

Aug 24, 2023 5:03 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Advantage Carlsen already

Carlsen has played Sicilian Defense - Alapin Variation, something he used against Pragg's countryman Arjun Erigaisi to aplomb. GM Daniel Naroditsky says on Chess24 that Pragg has absolutely no hopes of winning here with the black.

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: The board after the early moves

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup final highlights: Pragg finishes runner-up after Carlsen wins final (10)

This is what it looks like after that initial flurry from the two players.

Aug 24, 2023 4:48 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: 2nd game to start soon

All right ticking down the seconds now, both players shake hands and here we go. Remember, the colours have been exchanged, Prag is on black. Carlsen starts with an E4. Prag responds with a c5. Both players in fact exchanging moves quite quickly in the first few seconds.

Aug 24, 2023 4:34 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Magnus wins the first game!

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup final highlights: Pragg finishes runner-up after Carlsen wins final (11)

Prag shakes hands with Carlsen and that is that for the first game. The Norwegian has won on the black, which means even a draw would be enough for him to clinch his maiden World Cup title.

Aug 24, 2023 4:29 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Prag has less than a minute!

The two players exchange rooks, Carlsen has over 3 minutes left on his clock while Prag has less than one. This is geting quite intense.

Aug 24, 2023 4:22 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: Last 5 mins for both players

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup final highlights: Pragg finishes runner-up after Carlsen wins final (12)

This is what the board looks like at the moment. Prag looking to defend a very tricky endgame here from Carlsen.

Aug 24, 2023 4:13 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: How things stand

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup final highlights: Pragg finishes runner-up after Carlsen wins final (13)

Carlsen plays rook a8-d8 and now waiting on Prag. Magnus has two rooks and two knights among his major pieces. Meanwhile, Prag has two rooks and a knight and a bishop. Prag moves one of those two rooks to F2 from F1 and so this is what the board looks like after that.

Aug 24, 2023 4:07 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: Queen trade!

Getting into the endgame now. Both players have exchanged their queens.

Aug 24, 2023 4:03 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Magnus roars back

Carlsen seems to have roared back into this with his last few games. Prag moves his king to h1. Waiting on the Norwegian. That time gap, has now now gone back to being level, we are moving towards the last 10 minutes on each players' clock.

Aug 24, 2023 3:57 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: 16 moves done

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup final highlights: Pragg finishes runner-up after Carlsen wins final (14)

This is what the board looks like Prag is pondering his move, he has about six minutes on Carlsen at the moment.

Aug 24, 2023 3:46 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: 12 moves in…

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup final highlights: Pragg finishes runner-up after Carlsen wins final (15)

This is where it stands. Magnus, in fact, seems to be comparitively more dicey here. But it is Magnus after all, he might have something up his sleeve, which is probably what Prag is thinking of as well. We are waiting for the Norwegian's move.

Aug 24, 2023 3:30 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Here we go!

Prag starts off with an e4, Carlsen responds with an e5. The same moves as yesterday with colours reversed. Hold on to your seatbelts.

Aug 24, 2023 3:23 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: The missing piece for Carlsen

Only Garry Kasparov has held the No.1 title for longer than Magnus Carlsen. He has the longest unbeaten streak in elite level classical chess. He has been world champion five times. And yet, incredibly, Carlsen has never won a World Cup. In fact, this is the first time he is playing in the final of the competition.

Aug 24, 2023 3:16 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: The tie-breaker format

This piece of information is for the uninitiated - today these two players are going to play multiple matches. It will start with first tie-braker stage where two sets of rapid games will be played. The time control will be 25 minutes for the game plus an additional 10-second increment per move. If the overall score is tied 1-1 at the end of it, the match proceeds to the second tiebreak stage. The time control for this 10 minutes plus a 10-second increment.

If there is no winner after this tie-break as well, it moves to a two-game blitz series. Each player is given five minutes on the clock, with an additional three seconds added after each move. In case there are no winners here either, we move to the last stage. Here a sudden-death blitz match takes place. The time control for each game is three minutes with a two-second increment (3+2 time control). A drawing of lots will determine which player plays white. If this ends in a tie, the players switch colours and play another blitz game. This will go on until a winner is decided.

Aug 24, 2023 3:14 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Head to head in shorter time controls

The two players have faced each other 13 times in shorter time control games. Carlsen, widely rated as the greatest in the world in these formats, has won eight times while Prag has won five.

Aug 24, 2023 3:07 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: The tables have been set!

Right, both the tables have been set for the final and third-place tie-breaks. Just a refresher, Fabiano Caruana and Nijat Abasov are in the third place match. Caruana beat Abasov in round 2 after the Azerbaijani beat the American in the first game.

Aug 24, 2023 2:40 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: What Carlsen said after Game 2

“Praggnanandhaa has already played a lot of tie-breaks against very strong players... I know he is very strong. If I have some energy, if I have a good day, obviously I will have good chances. I am very grateful to the organisers, FIDE and the doctors and nurses, who got me some good treatment. Today, I am feeling a bit better but I still didn't feel like I had the energy for a full fight, so I thought, let's get one more day of rest. Hopefully, I will have more strength tomorrow.”

Aug 24, 2023 2:28 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Prag's brilliance

However, don't think that Praggnandhaa has survived this long simply because of Carlsen's stomach bug. The fact that Carlsen chose to fight for a draw almost from the first move in the second game just shows how seriously the Norwegian is taking the 18-year-old. The fact that he topped the World No.2 and No.3 on the way to the final shows just how dangerous an opponent he can be.

Aug 24, 2023 2:26 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen Live: Carlsen's dodgy stomach

Carlsen had an extra day compared to Praggnanandhaa because of the fact that the latter had to play a tie-breaker in his semi-final tie. But he admitted that there was no real advantage he gained there because of the fact that he had been hit with a stomach bug. This has been a major factor thus far in this tie. Here is what he said after the first round: “Normally, I would just probably have a bit of an advantage having a rest day while he had to play a tough tiebreak yesterday, but I've been in a pretty rough shape the last couple of days. I got some food poisoning after the game against Abasov. I haven't been able to eat for the last two days. This also meant that I was really calm cause I had no energy to be nervous,. I am happy with the way that I solved the problem in the opening so the result is fine.”

Aug 24, 2023 2:11 PM

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Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: How Round 2 went

Only 30 moves were played by both players before they shook hands. It went at quite a brisk pace, with both players having lost their queens by move 10. After that, both their heavy pieces were decimated quite quickly and they had same-colour bishops and a symmetrical pawn structure in the endgame.

Aug 24, 2023 2:02 PM

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R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup Final Round 3 Live updates: Hello and welcome!

“Let there be fireworks!” is what Prag and Carlsen declared metaphorically when they shook hands on a quiet draw on Wednesday. The game lasted 30 moves and Carlsen, who was on white, seemed to have been working towards drawing the match right from the beginning, seemingly struggling still with his stomach bug. It means that 18-year-old Praggnanandhaa is now up against one of the all-time greats in a pair of rapid games and potentially a couple of blitz games afterwards. A winner has to come out of today's matches and the formats are the kind that brings excitement by design and so, Day 3 of this epic final could be at the opposite end of the spectrum that Day 2 was at.

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