
New Delhi, India – In India, a nation of more than a billion people who are mostly crazy about cricket, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa was drawn towards chess at the age of three.
He watched his sister Vaishali Rameshbabu – enrolled in a chess academy by their father who was miffed at her addiction to television – practice in her room. That is when Praggnanandhaa says he fell in love with chess.