Pranav turns into world junior chess champion
Mar 07, 2025 10:26 PM IST
He wanted solely a draw within the ultimate spherical to win the open class of the match with a 9/11 rating
Bengaluru: Within the area of lower than 4 months, India has one other world champion in chess. Grandmaster Pranav Venkatesh is the brand new world junior chess champion. He wanted solely a draw within the ultimate spherical to win the open class of the match held in Petrovac, Montenegro with a 9/11 rating.
The Below-20 occasion had practically 230 gamers from 44 international locations taking part, with 157 gamers (together with 12 GMs) from 63 international locations within the open part. Pranav was the second-highest rated participant within the open discipline after Belgian GM Daniel Dardha.
5-time world champion Viswanathan Anand – who was the primary Indian to win the world junior title in 1987 in Baguio – took Pranav underneath his wing, and the 18-year-old has been a mentee on the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy. Very similar to reigning world champion Gukesh D.
Pentala Harikrishna and Abhijeet Gupta are the opposite former world junior champions from India. Gupta was the final Indian to win the title in 2008.
Pranav, who turned India’s seventy fifth Grandmaster in 2022, did so by selecting up two of his three GM norms and crossing the 2500-Elo mark in two months. He famously defeated world No 1 Magnus Carlsen within the titled Tuesday on-line match in 2023 and in the identical 12 months was a part of Carlsen’s Offerspill Chess Membership facet that gained the European Chess Membership Cup.
Final 12 months, he gained a double gold on the World Youth Below-18 World speedy and blitz in addition to the Challenger part of the Chennai Grand Masters the place he defeated D Harika, Vaishali R, and Murali Karthikeyan.
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