He has hardly had a moment of rest since he made it to the final of the Chess World Cup at Baku. R. Praggnanandhaa may have lost to Magnus Carlsen, the planet’s best player by a considerable distance, but he won fame the way probably no Indian chess player has since Viswanathan Anand.
From Baku, he had to travel to Dusseldorf for the FIDE World rapid team championship. His team WR Chess was the champion.
After receiving a hero’s welcome in his hometown of Chennai, he was invited for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Then he came to Kolkata for the Indian team’s coaching camp for the Asian Games.
