If his own playing schedule wasn’t clashing with the Chess Olympiad, V. Pranav would have loved to head to coastal town one of these days. It’s not every day that the world’s largest chess event comes to a place near your home.
But the 16-year-old Chennai lad is in Romania now. On Sunday, he became a Grandmaster after completing his final norm from the Limpedea Open. So India got its 75th GM with the country’s 75th Independence Day just a week away.
He made his first norm from the Serbian Open last year and the second from the Vezerkepzo tournament at Budapest in June.
