After three losses on Day One. 16-year-old chess Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa stunned world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the eighth round of the Airthings Masters fast online chess competition on Monday.
The fifth-youngest person ever to accomplish the title of Grandmaster, Praggnanandhaa, playing with dark pieces against the 31-year-old Carlsen, won in 39 moves in a Tarrasch variety game. He along these lines stopped Carlsen’s run of three successive triumphs.
The Indian, who won the World Youth Chess Championships U-8 title in 2013, which acquired him the title of FIDE Master at 7 years old, right now has eight focuses and is in joint twelfth spot after eight rounds. Following the Carlsen achievement, Praggnanandhaa presently has two successes, two draws and four misfortunes.
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On Sunday, Praggnanandhaa drew the first round with Le Quang Liem of Vietnam and lost to Canadian Eric Hensen, Chinese Ding Liren and Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda. On Monday, he drew against Dutch player Anish Giri and lost to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan.
Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi is driving the standings with 19 places.
The Airthings Masters has a 16-player online quick arrangement, where the victor gets three focuses, while a draw acquires him just one in the primer rounds. Seven additional rounds stay in the starter stage.
Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi scored three successes on the second day of the competition that finished almost immediately Monday and was driving with 19 focuses from a potential 24 places. Ding Liren and Hansen were offering the second spot to 15 focuses each.
Carlsen (13 focuses) was imparting the fifth spot to Vincent Keymer of Germany while Aronian continued in the following situation in the occasion in which the main eight set players fit the bill for the knockout stage on February 23 which will likewise be played on chdess24.com’s online platform.
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