R Praggnanandhaa turns into new India No. 1, D Gukesh second in newest reside rankings

In the reside rankings, Praggnanandhaa is fourth now, with an Elo score of 2778.3. D Gukesh is fifth with a score of 1776.6, and Arjun Erigaisi (2775.7) is sixth. Norwegian Magnus Carlsen (2839.2) occupies high spot, adopted by American GMs Hikaru Nakamura (2807) and Fabiano Caruana (2784.2).

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Viswanathan Anand (2743.0) will not be within the top-ten, and occupies thirteenth place within the reside rankings, and is India No. 4. Meanwhile, Aravindh Chithambaram (2724.0) is twenty fourth within the reside rankings and is India No. 5.

Taking to X, Anand hailed the brand new India No. 1 and wrote, “Of all his wins this 12 months, this one appeared the least probably with simply two rounds to go. However, he defeated Arjun Erigaisi (yesterday) and at this time within the essential match defeated Nodirbek Abdussattorov to tie for first place.”

“In a formidable demonstration of character he gained his third tiebreak of the 12 months as properly. He is deservedly the brand new quantity 4 within the chess world and the very best rated participant in India,” he added.

Meanwhile, his longtime coach RB Ramesh instructed The Indian Express, “Pragg is kind of good in assault, however he was taking part in too strong in 2024. At least that was my impression. We mentioned this and talked about being extra adventurous, which you’ll see now.”

“His chess was all the time fairly good. Now he’s additionally been including new openings and making an attempt much more number of openings in video games.”

Ramesh additionally revealed that Vaibhav Suri working as Praggnanandhaa’s second has been useful. He mentioned, “Vaibhav has been serving to us longer than this 12 months. But we didn’t wish to go public earlier (and reveal his affiliation with Pragg). He has been with us for a while, however solely just lately he has began accompanying Pragg for tournaments and that has been very useful.”

“It’s good to have somebody you realize properly, who believes in you, journey with you throughout essential tournaments. When you’re going by tough instances, it will likely be simpler to consider in ourselves.”

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