At the 2017 World Junior Championships which were held from November 13-25 in Italy, Indian child chess prodigy 12-year-old Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (in photo) captured his first grandmaster norm by placing fourth in the Championship. Three grandmaster norms are required to obtain the full title of grandmaster in chess. Pragg is on track to smash a record held by Sergey Karjakin of Russia as the youngest chess grandmaster in history. He has three months in which to secure the two additional norms for him to become the new record holder. (Photo: Amruta Mokal)
The world’s number three chess player, American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, unfastened the deadlock of draws which had been plaguing the London Chess Classic for an interminable three rounds. Caruana was the only person to score the full point in the fourth round by beating Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin. The other four games were drawn.
In the following round, Caruana outplayed former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand from India to complete two magnificent victories against two of the most brilliant players of the day.
