Congrats to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa!

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Peter Shaw
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Re: Congrats to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa!

Post by Peter Shaw » Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:36 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Sun Jun 24, 2018 9:28 am
Mick Norris wrote:
Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:55 am
2nd youngest GM in history
He just needs to work on his FIDE rapid rating now :lol: https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=25059530
This isn't a bad start: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2018/1/1/1

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Re: Congrats to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa!

Post by Mick Norris » Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:43 am

Mick Norris wrote:
Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:55 am
2nd youngest GM in history
It appears there's a new 2nd youngest GM in history according to a Mark Crowther tweet

12 years and 10 months UZB IM Javokhir Sindarov made a final GM norm to get the title in Budapest at the First Saturday tournament
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Re: Congrats to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa!

Post by Nick Burrows » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:34 pm

Looks like Uzbekistan will become a force to be reckoned with

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Re: Congrats to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa!

Post by Mick Norris » Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:37 am

First major victory TWIC at Xtracon 2019 for Praggnanandhaa
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Re: Congrats to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa!

Post by Chris Rice » Mon Jul 29, 2019 10:41 am

His sister also did well. Could we be looking at the first brother and sister world champions at some point?Image

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Re: Congrats to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa!

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:22 am

I assume that's a very proud mum in the middle!

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Re: Congrats to Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa!

Post by John McKenna » Mon Jul 29, 2019 11:43 am

Nick Burrows wrote:
Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:34 pm
Looks like Uzbekistan will become a force to be reckoned with
Another young Uzbek GM, Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2598), is continuing to cut his teeth at Biel. Where Indian GM S. Vidit is cutting a swathe -

https://en.chessbase.com/post/biel-ches ... 2019-blitz