The 32-year-old Norwegian, who has controlled the ICF standings for 12 years, triumphs over the 18-year-old Indian. In a final played over three days in Baku, Azerbaijan, the 32-year-old Norwegian, who has held the top spot in the global rankings for more than 12 years, overcame the 18-year-old Indian on Thursday.
Magnus Carlsen's Path to Success
Magnus Carlsen, full name Sven Magnus En Carlsen, is a Norwegian chess player who was born on November 30, 1990, in Tnsberg, Norway. In 2013, at the age of 22, he became the second-youngest world champion. When Carlsen was five years old, his father gave him his first chess lessons. At the age of eight, he participated in his first competition. At the 2002 FIDE World Youth Chess Championship, which was held in Iraklion, Greece, Carlsen placed second in the boys' under-12 division. Carlsen's extraordinary recall astonished his instructors early in his career, and he has used it throughout his career to play a wide range of openings. He prefers a positional style of play where overall board control is more important than attacking an opponent's pieces. After the first two rounds of the championship failed to yield a victor, the match entered a two-game tie-break. The first game was won by Carlsen, while the second game resulted in a tie, giving the grandmaster the victory. Even Carlsen posted a GIF from the popular UK TV programme "The Inbetweeners," with the character declaring, "Completed it," to recognise his own success on social media. The two players have had a difficult few weeks because they have faced a lot of competition to get to the final. Carlsen's experience with food illness earlier in the week only served to complicate matters further. Furthermore, there wasn't much separating Carlsen from adolescent Indian chess sensation Praggnanandhaa, also known to fans as Pragg, especially since Carlsen's health issues were a significant discussion point. Millions of viewers tuned in to watch perhaps the sport's two biggest names face off in an exciting final after two draws. At one point, 115,000 people were watching the live broadcast of the opening game of the final, while more than 150,000 watched the tiebreaker. Carlsen demonstrated why he is the current World Rapid Champion and No. 1 in the world by outwitting Pragg and putting the 18-year-old under time pressure to win the first game of the tiebreak, which was played in the style of a two-game rapid match. Carlsen was able to hold on for the draw he needed to win his first World Cup and add it to his collection of chess titles. The World Cup served as Pragg's stepping stone to the elite level of the sport.
Pragg, who earlier in his career became the youngest international chess master in history at the age of 10 years, 10 months, and 19 days, defeated two of the top three players in the world to reach the final and earn a spot in the 2024 Candidates Tournament, which selects the challenger to the World Chess Championship.
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