Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa shocked world No.3 Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 by way of the tie-break within the semifinals of the FIDE World Cup chess event in Baku (Azerbaijan) on Monday.
After the two-game classical sequence ended 1-1, the 18-year-old Indian prodigy outlasted the highly-rated American GM in a battle of wits in a nerve-wracking tie-breaker.
Praggnanandhaa will now tackle Norway’s Magnus Carlsen within the last.
“Pragg goes via to the ultimate! He beats Fabiano Caruana within the tiebreak and can face Magnus Carlsen now. What a efficiency!,” chess legend Viswanathan Anand posted on ‘X’, previously Twitter.