Move first, think later. Pattern recognition, intuition, create confusion, strategise, psych the opponent… It might sound like 007’s standard gambling manual, but it is actually Speed Chess 101.
As chess increasingly finds itself divided over the status of classical game versus the thrill of rapid and blitz, R Praggnanandhaa just gave a lesson in the latter. The 21-year-old beat 34-year-old defending champion and world No. 2 Fabiano Caruana to become the first the Indian to win the Grand Chess Tour (GCT).
