R Praggnanandhaa and Magnus Carlsen had earlier drawn each their video games of Classical Chess.© FIDE
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen defeated India’s grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa to clinch the title of Worldwide Chess Federation World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday. The Norwegian chess grandmaster gained the primary sport of the Speedy Chess tie-breaker with black items and manged to carry on for a draw within the second sport with white items. The tie breaker is performed in a Speedy Chess quicker-time management format.
Praggnanandhaa fought laborious however fell brief with Carlsen summoning all his large match expertise when it mattered probably the most.
Earlier on Wednesday Praggnanandhaa and Carlsen drew each their video games of Classical Chess.
Praggnanandhaa needed to accept the place of runner-up of the 2023 FIDE World Cup however he’ll draw hope from the truth that he has qualfied for the FIDE Candidates event.
The 2024 Candidates Match might be an eight-player chess event scheduled to be held from 2 April to 25 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada. The winner of the event will becomne the challenger for the 2024 World Chess Championship match.
Praggnanandhaa had a wonderful event the place he defeated World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura in a tie-breaker whereas reaching the ultimate defeating World No. 3 Fabiano Caruana.
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