Pragyananand, who won over World Champion Magnus Carlsen on Wednesday, is being praised everywhere. At the age of 16, Carlsen was defeated in the eighth round of AirThings Masters, an online pid chess competition. On this victory of Pragyanand, the Prime Minister of the country expressed his happiness by tweeting.
We are all rejoicing on the success of the young genius R Praggnanandhaa. Proud of his accomplishment of winning against the noted champion Magnus Carlsen. I wish the talented Praggnanandhaa the very best for his future endeavours. @rpragchess
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 23, 2022
In his tweet, Modi wrote that we are all very happy on the success of Pragyananand. The whole nation is very proud of his achievement of defeating World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Let us tell you that Carlson had three consecutive victories before the Meltwater Champions Tour. However, against Pragyananand he could not show the fair game and lost. Let us tell you that this was Pragyananand’s first victory in any kind of chess game.