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R Praggnanandhaa becomes second youngest Grandmaster ever
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Congrats Pragganandha! 
Jun 24, 2018
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Maybe a future world champion?
Will be exciting to watch him over the next few years.
o boy! really i thought he was still an IM. Congrats to him! He is gonna become the future WC and make india even more proud. Mark my words!
Jun 24, 2018
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I am not sure but I think he missed the record because he lost against John Bartholomew in the last tournament where he could make the last norm.
ShaoniHiya wrote:
o boy! really i thought he was still an IM. Congrats to him! He is gonna become the future WC and make india even more proud. Mark my words!
Most likely so. I have many juniors I could pick as future WC, and there are many years in the future. If I could mention one, that would be Praggnanandhaa…………………… and me, of course.
Congrats buuuut: if you check https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=25059530 he's still an IM, even if his rating is 2529
Jun 24, 2018
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hes GM now: check it here: maybe site not updated yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-4TIxmVRs
Congrats to him, but to be honest who really cares if he was youngest or second youngest GM. Top level chess is all about winning big tournaments and being world champion. He definitely has the potential, but a lot of hard work ahead.
ShaoniHiya wrote:
o boy! really i thought he was still an IM. Congrats to him! He is gonna become the future WC and make india even more proud. Mark my words!
No offense but hes gonna have a hard time compared to others. I mean, Wei Yi of China has a rating of 2734
JayeshSinhaChess wrote:
Congrats to him, but to be honest who really cares if he was youngest or second youngest GM. Top level chess is all about winning big tournaments and being world champion. He definitely has the potential, but a lot of hard work ahead.
Umm, everyone except you. And, top level chess is all about the passion and enjoyment of playing chess. That's why they're there. No-one plays for all the money and awards and titles, they play to HAVE FUN. They just want to win but they dont care if they dont. Yeah, they get sad, but do they get totally depressed JUST because they're NOT WC? Take Kramnik for example. hes 42 so his age gives his opponent an advantage. He still plays happily, except if he has the opportunity to be WC, hes competitive. Even low rated players like me can see this, why cant you? To me you just seem like one guy who just fanboys over WC and doesn't understand the true meaning of chess
Don't kid yourself. You and I play for fun. For them its their career, and not for fun and involves very high levels of investment of effort and measured by success in big tournaments. What are you even on about when you its all about the fun at the top level. No it isn't.
Of course whether pragg takes up chess as a career (he will in all likelihood) remains to be seen. However if his career peaked here, then it would be very disappointing. I would much rather he won the world champion and be the millionth yougest GM.
Youngest GM is nothing besides an interesting trivia. Karjakin is the youngest so what? Who cares. He is just another face on the top circuit. If he had defeat Carlsen, that would have been something.
How exactly does that work?
Check this from wikipedia!
P.s It just take 0.001 seconds to google!
JayeshSinhaChess wrote:
Don't kid yourself. You and I play for fun. For them its their career, and not for fun and involves very high levels of investment of effort and measured by success in big tournaments. What are you even on about when you its all about the fun at the top level. No it isn't.
Of course whether pragg takes up chess as a career (he will in all likelihood) remains to be seen. However if his career peaked here, then it would be very disappointing. I would much rather he won the world champion and be the millionth yougest GM.
Youngest GM is nothing besides an interesting trivia. Karjakin is the youngest so what? Who cares. He is just another face on the top circuit. If he had defeat Carlsen, that would have been something.
By "for fun" I mean, they're PASSIONATE ABOUT IT. That's why they want to win. As for money, I dont understand you. Even IF they fail in a tounament, at the LOWEST, they get paid about $20 000 PER TOUNAMENT. Doesn't sound like much, but with 10 tounaments they make 200 000 dollars and they're already getting good money. Also. IF he's the youngest that is a HUGE accomplishment. At his age his brain hasn't matured enough to think organised so a kids brain is NATURALLY more underpowered and its nice when even still there are GMs at the age where they naturally are worse than older players.
ChessSD67 wrote:
ShaoniHiya wrote:
o boy! really i thought he was still an IM. Congrats to him! He is gonna become the future WC and make india even more proud. Mark my words!
No offense but hes gonna have a hard time compared to others. I mean, Wei Yi of China has a rating of 2734
cmon who's in a hurry? he's only 12
drmrboss wrote:
Check this from wikipedia!
P.s It just take 0.001 seconds to google!
Its not official on FIDE database its JUST by Elo
After becoming the youngest International Master at 10 years old, R Praggnanandhaa has become the second youngest Grandmaster at 12 years and 10 months.
He missed out on becoming the youngest ever by three months with Sergey Karjakin holding the record of being the youngest Grandmaster in the world at 12 years, 7 months – a feat achieved in 2002.
Youngest grandmasters in history:
1. Sergey Karjakin 12 years, 7 months
2. R Praggnandhaa 12 years, 10 months
3. Nodirbek Abdusattorov 13 years, 1 month
4. Parimarjan Negi 13 years, 4 months
5. Magnus Carlsen 13 years, 4 months