R Praggnanandhaa’s longtime coach drops huge secret as 19-year-old turns into India No. 1: Did not need to go public’

The line-up within the event consisted of the likes of Arjun Erigaisi, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, Javokhir Sindarov, Nodirbek Yakubboev and Shamsiddin Vokhidov.

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Dissecting the Indian GM’s win, his longtime coach RB Ramesh spoke to Indian Express. “Pragg is kind of good in assault, however he was enjoying too strong in 2024. At least that was my impression. We mentioned this and talked about being extra adventurous, which you’ll see now,” he stated.

“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 dropped a bombshell revelation, claiming that Praggnanandhaa additionally had lots to thank his second, Vaibhav Suri. “Vaibhav has been serving to us longer than this yr. But we didn’t need to go public earlier (and reveal his affiliation with Pragg). He has been with us for a while, however solely not too long ago he has began accompanying Pragg for tournaments and that has been very useful,” he stated.

“It’s good to have somebody you realize nicely, who believes in you, journey with you throughout essential tournaments. When you’re going by tough instances, it is going to be simpler to imagine in ourselves,” he added.

In the dwell chess rankings, Praggnanandhaa is the brand new world No. 4, with an Elo ranking of 2778.3. Meanwhile, D Gukesh is fifth with a ranking 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). Praggnanandhaa can be trying to construct on his kind, and climb greater up the standings.

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