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Gukesh (left) looked quite disappointed after the defeat.
Indian Grandmaster R Praganand won the Tata Steel Masters 2025 tournament on Sunday by defeating World Chase Champion D Gukesh in Tiebreak. Pragananand Vishwanathan has become the second Indian to win the title after Anand. Vishwanathan Anand won the title five (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006) bar. In this, he has been a joint winner 3 times.
On Sunday, the winner was decided by the tiebreak match played in Vijk Aan Ji, Netherlands. Gukesh and Praganand suffered defeat in their last round. Gukesh lost to Arjun Arigasi in his last phase. At the same time, Pagnanand was defeated by German Grandmaster Vincent Kimer.
Prananand and Gukesh had 8.5–8.5 points after the last 13th round of the 14 players' round-robin event. After this, the winner had to be decided by the tiebreak match. In this, Pagnanand returned after trailing and defeated Gukesh and won the title.
Tournament is being played since 1938 The Tata Steel Chase tournament is being played since 1938. It is held every year in January. It was initially known as the Hugons Tournament. Its name changed three times and from 2011 it came to be known by the Tata Steel Chase tournament. These are round-robin tournaments. In this, the top-14 players of the world play against each other. After the end of 13 rounds, the top holders are declared the winner. At the same time, if a player is on par in the end of 13 rounds, then the winner is decided through a tiebreak match.
International master was formed at the age of 10 Pragananand hails from Tamil Nadu. He was born on 10 August 2005 in Chennai. His father Rameshbabu works as a branch manager at Tamil Nadu State Corporation Bank, while his mother is Nagalakshmi House Wife. Pragnananda became the youngest international master of chess in 2016 at the age of 10.
18 -year -old Gukesh Chess's new world champion, the youngest won the title 18 -year -old Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh won the World Chase Championship title in Singapore on 11 December 2024. He defeated China's defending champion Ding Liran in the finals 7.5–6.5. Gukesh became the first player in the world to win the title at such a young age. Earlier in 1985, Russia's Gary Casparov won the title at the age of 22. He was honored with the Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna Award in January this, while Gukesh won the final game in the open category at the Chess Olympiad played in September last year and won the title of India.
This photo of Gukesh is on 17 January. When he was awarded the Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna Award.
Who is D Gukesh?The full name of Gukesh D is Domamaraju Gukesh. He hails from Chennai. Gukesh was born on 7 May 2006 in Chennai. He started playing chess at the age of 7. He was initially given coaching by Global News Daily Nagaiya.
Nagaiya has been an international chase player and Chase has a home tutor in Chennai. After this, Vishwanathan Anand gave Gukesh coaching along with giving information about the game. Gukesh's father is a doctor and mother is a microbiologist by profession.
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