On Sunday, in a Dutch village on the North Sea coast, Praggnanandhaa flicked away a quiet year with a hell-raising ...

Gukesh is on top of the standings with 8.00 points, followed by R Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusattorov at 7.50 points. D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen during a match. Gukesh is the reigning world ...

Praggnanandhaa made it 1-1 in the blitz in the tie-breakers before a superb accurate game in sudden-death saw him triumph over the world champion in a thrilling end to the proceedings at Wijk Aan ...

Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa are among the first group ... for his next challenge a face-off against Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, the reigning world number one and former five-time World Chess Champion.

Carlsen won on tie-break and went on to beat Viswanathan Anand to be crowned the world champion for the first time. Despite the loss, Praggnanandhaa will play tie-break games of shorter duration ...

The tournament, steeped in tradition, dates back to 1938, with Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Botvinnik, Garry Kasparov, and Magnus Carlsen among its past winners. Praggnanandhaa will now join these greats ...