Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, better known as R Praggnanandhaa is an Indian chess player, who is just 18 years old at the moment (as of August 2023). At an age when most chess players focus on gaining experience and getting the fundamentals of the game right, R Praggnanandhaa is already a grandmaster.
R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen for the title of World Chess Champion at the FIDE World Cup
The wonder kid breaks headlines every now and then, but it all started in 2016 when R Praggnanandhaa became the youngest international master in the history of chess at the mere age of 10 years, ten months and 19 days. The Indian grandmaster has already got the title of ‘chess prodigy’ in the chess world.
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