Praggnanandhaa vs Carlsen Highlights, Chess World Cup Final 2023 Tie-breaks: Magnus beats Pragg to win title; Caruana finishes third ahead of Abasov

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The closing ceremony will take place now.

Winner - Magnus Carlsen (Norway)

Runner Up - R. Praggnanadhaa (India)

Third position - Fabiano Caruana (USA)

Fourth Position - Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan)

The former World Championship Challenger Fabiano Caruana beats Abasov to finish third in the Chess World Cup.

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Magnus Carlsen beats Praggnanandhaa to secure first Chess World Cup title

India’s R Praggnanandhaa fell to an agonising defeat against World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in the FIDE World Cup final at Baku on Thursday.

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Pragg agrees to draw and this will be the end of the 18-years-old fight- in the World Cup. Magnus Carlsen is the World Cup Winner!

Pragg is a pawn down and the most he can salvage here in the position is a draw unless Magnus makes some obvious and unlikely mistake.

Magnus already played the Sicilian Defense - Alapin Variation against Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi and it is considered to be a very solid and safe line for white pieces. Can Pragg change history? It will need a herculean effort from the 18-year-old to beat Magnus with black.

The first exchange on the board happens when Pragg plays c-takes-d4. White wins the pawn back eighth move and Carlsen quickly castles after Pragg takes the second pawn with queen.

The second rapid game is about to start now as both players are back on the board.

The World No. 2 pounces on the tournament’s dark horse - Niaj Abasov to beat him with black pieces and he also just needs a draw with white to confirm his third position.

Pragg resigns as he realised it is gone and it is the five-time World Champion who is just a draw away from his first World Cup title!

Pragg’s pawn to a6 was a big blunder and Magnus is now in a completely winning position.

Pragg only had 6 seconds on the clock and he made a big blunder under time-constraint.

Magnus puts his rook to f6, possibly asking for a rook exchange and Pragg accepts it and he pushes his b-file pawn. Although he is under severe time-pressure, just 15 seconds on the clock.

Pragg is absolutely fearless as he pushes his pawn to g4 and the pawn-to-f6 move from Magnus is a positional mistake and Pragg has put his other rook to g2. Pragg pushes his pawn further to g5!

Careful maneuvering puts Pragg in a better position but he is losing crucial time while thinking deeply for accurate moves. This is heading to an very exciting finish!

The endgame master is with tricky knight-pair and the 18-year-old Pragg will need to play accurately to negotiate the World No. 1 in this position.

As expected, Magnus exchanges his queen and after knight-takes-queen, pawn exchange at g6, Pragg is left with 6 pawns, two rooks and a bishop, knight each while Magnus has the knight pair instead of bishop.

Pragg’s king-to-h1 move gives a slight advantage to Magnus in this position. Magnus will most likely put his queen-to-f6 possibly wants queen exchange.

Magnus pushed his pawn to g5 but it is an inaccuracy according to the engines. Pragg makes a big mistake in putting his knight to f5 which was taken by Carlsen with his light-squared bishop and Pragg trades it with pawn-takes-bishop.

Carlsen’s Pawn to d5 in his 11th move cost him more than 4 minutes.

The Black Knight move to Nf6 announces the Two Knights; this aggressive defence results in open and often complex play.. The Two Knights has been adopted as Black by many aggressive players including Chigorin and Keres, and World Champions Tal and Boris Spassky.

White plays the Giuoco Pianissimo (Italian: “very quiet game”). This solid but passive opening more often occurs through the Bishops opening (2. Bc4) move order.

After the first move of e4, Pragg plays an Italian open.

Round 1: Bye

Round 2: Beat Levan Pantsulaia 2-0

Round 3: Beat Aryan Tari 1.5-0.5

Round 4: Beat Vincent Keymar 3.5-2.5 (tie-breaks)

Round 5: Beat Vasyl Ivanchuk 2-0

Round 6: Beat D. Gukesh 1.5-0.5

Round 7: Beat Nijat Abasov 1.5-0.5

Round 1: Bye

Round 2: Beat Lagarde Maxime 1.5-0.5

Round 3: Beat David Navara 1.5-0.5

Round 4: Beat Hikaru Nakamura 3-1 (tie-breaks)

Round 5 : Beat Ferenc Berkes 1.5-0.5

Round 6: Beat Arjun Erigaisi 5-4 (tie-breaks)

Round 7: Beat Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 (tie-breaks)

Tiebreak 1 - 25+10 - 2 Games (Rapid)

Tiebreak 2 - 10+10 - 2 Games (Rapid)

Tiebreak 3 - 5+3 - 2 Games (Blitz)

Tiebreak 4 - Sudden-Death - 3+2 (Blitz)

Praggnanandhaa vs Carlsen Final: Chess World Cup 2023 tie-break format explained

Praggnanandhaa, World No. 1 Carlsen to battle in tie-breaks for FIDE Chess World Cup 2023 title. Praggnanandhaa has won all his matches in tie-breaks, while Carlsen has won 5 out of 7.

Hello and Welcome to Sportstar’s LIVE Coverage of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2023 Final. India’s R. Praggnanandhaa eyes a historic win against World No. 1 Norway’s Magnus Carlsen in the tiebreaks. Stay tuned as we bring you all the live action.