{"id":188698,"date":"2022-04-13T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=188698"},"modified":"2022-04-13T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:17:09","slug":"indian-gm-praggnanandhaa-wins-reykjavik-open-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/indian-gm-praggnanandhaa-wins-reykjavik-open-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian GM Praggnanandhaa wins Reykjavik Open chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reykjajvik, 12 Apr: Young Indian Grandmaster R Pragganandhaa on Tuesday won the prestigious Reykjavik Open chess tournament here with 7.5 points from nine rounds.<br \/>\nThe 16-year-old Pragganandhaa defeated compatriot GM D Gukesh in the final round to emerge sole winner.<br \/>\nPraggnanandhaa turned things around in the all-Indian battle after his opponent blundered when he appeared to be losing.<br \/>\nThe highly-rated Indian remained unbeaten through the nine rounds and finished with wins over Matthieu Cornette (France) and Gukesh in the last two rounds.<br \/>\nHe also posted four other wins, including the one over American Abhimanyu Mishra, who last year became the then youngest Grandmaster at the age of 12 years and four months.<br \/>\nPraggnanandhaa (ELO 2624) gained 13.2 ELO points from the triumph.<br \/>\nHe had recently hogged the limelight after stunning world No.1 Magnus Carlsen in an online tournament. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reykjajvik, 12 Apr: Young Indian Grandmaster R Pragganandhaa on Tuesday won the prestigious Reykjavik Open chess tournament here with 7.5 points from nine rounds. The 16-year-old Pragganandhaa defeated compatriot GM D Gukesh in the final round to emerge sole winner. Praggnanandhaa turned things around in the all-Indian battle after his opponent blundered when he appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-188698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}