Praggnanandhaa is entitled Grand Master by IM Juan Röhl

Praggnanandhaa is entitled Grand Master

The young and talented Indian HIM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has just been brilliantly named as the new Grand Master, after finishing tied for first place in the 4th. Open Gredine that was played in the Italian city of Ortisei. The brilliant player originally from Chennai (the same land of GM Vishy Anand) accumulated 7.5 out of 9, to complete his third rule for the GM title and with his 12 years, 10 months and 13 days becomes the second most GM precocious history (the record is kept by the Russian GM Sergey Karjakin with 12 years and 7 months).

The Paris Grand Chess Tour ended with the triumph of American GM Hikaru Nakamura after accumulating 23 points, followed by Russian GM Sergey Karjakin with 21.5 and third ended the winner of the previous US GM Wesley So with 21 points; surprised the weak performances of GMs Fabiano Caruana and Vladimir Kramnik, who finished in the last two places with 13.5 and 13 points. The next stop will be played in the city of San Luis, the United States from August 10 to 15.

At the national level, we highlight the victory of the Molina & Otazo team in the IRT Rapid Duplas "Fontecilla" Cup held in Chacao. The team was composed of CM Jesus Molina and WCM Annyd Otazo, accumulated 21 points fruit of 7 Matches won and 2 lost, they were joined by the team Ramírez & González with 19 points that exceeded the Sucre & González team in the Tie-Break System. On the individual level, we highlight the brilliant performance of MF Mauricio Ramírez (with 9 out of 9 and a fantastic 100%).

Let's see next to the victory with black pieces of Praggnanandhaa against the Dutch GM Roeland Pruijssers in the last round that, after the move 28 of the White, arrived at the position that reflects the Diagram.

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