Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa created history after he became India’s youngest player to reach the Chess World Cup Final in 2023. He is 18 years old and a chess grandmaster and his life has been a list of achieving one milestone after another.
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Born in Chennai in 2005 to Rameshbabu, the branch manager of TNSC bank, and Nagalakshmi, a homemaker, Praggnanandhaa is the younger brother of Woman Grandmaster and International Master R Vaishali. People first came to know of him as he stood in the limelight after winning the World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 title in 2013 and the same title in the under-10 category in 2015. It was then that he got the title of FIDE Master.
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In 2016, he etched history after becoming the youngest international master at the age of 10. He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the World Junior Chess Championship in 2017, his second norm at the Heraklion Fischer Memorial GM norm tournament (Greece) in 2018, and his third norm at the Gredine Open in Italy in the same year.
He is the fifth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster.
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He kept winning titles one after the other, making him a known and revered name in the world of chess. In 2022, he received the Anjuna Award from President Droupadi Murmu.
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Praggnanandhaa is an inspiration who is taking India’s name higher and higher with every match!