Chessable Masters final: India’s Praggnanandhaa loses to Ding Liren in tie-break | Chess News

CHENNAI: Younger Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa went down preventing to world No. 2 Ding Liren within the tie-break of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2022 on-line event remaining early on Friday.
The 16-year-old from Chennai fought again to win the second set after having misplaced the opener. However then misplaced the two-game blitz tie-breaker.
The Indian GM, who had misplaced the primary set 1.5-2.5, hit again to win the second 2.5-1.5 and drive the blitz tie-break.

The 29-year previous Liren used his expertise to trump Praggnanandhaa within the second of the tie-break video games. After the primary blitz sport led to stalemate, the Chinese language participant received the following in 49 strikes to sprint the Indian teenager’s hopes.
Earlier within the second set which he wanted to win to drive a tie-break, Praggnanandhaa bought the all-important victory within the second sport in 79 strikes.

The following sport noticed the 2 dish out a 106-move draw earlier than one other stalemate meant the title could be determined by the tie-breaker.
After the ultimate, the Indian prodigy’s coach R B Ramesh praised his ward’s efforts and wrote on Twitter: “Congratulations Ding for beating each Pragg AND the mosquitoes! Happy with you @rpragchess, confirmed good nerves and character general in robust conditions.”

The Indian GM had defeated the highly-rated Dutchman Anish Giri within the semifinal to develop into the primary Indian participant to achieve the ultimate of a Meltwater Champions Chess Tour occasion.
He had crushed world No.1 Magnus Carlsen for a second time in the course of the preliminary section by which he completed fourth and bought previous Wei Yi of China within the quarterfinals.