Magnus Carlsen wins 2023 FIDE World Cup beating Praggnanandhaa of India
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World no.1 Chess player Magnus Carlsen of Norway defeated R. Praggnanandhaa of India to win the 10th FIDE World Cup and his first time . The final between the two players was played over three days and Magnus Carlsen finally won the tiebreaker match on 24 August 2023.
The 10th FIDE World Cup 2023 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 30th July to 24 August 2023 .
Achievements of R. Praggnanandhaa
18 year old Praggnanandhaa who hails from Chennai, Tamil Nadu is the youngest player to play in the World Cup final.
Praggnanandhaa has also become the third-youngest person in the world to qualify for the Candidates Tournament. Both Magnus Carlsen and US chess genius Bobby Fischer had qualified for the tournament when they were 16 years old.
He was just 10 years old when he became the youngest International Master in the history of the game.
Two years later, in 2018, he became the world's then second-youngest chess grandmaster.
FIDE World Cup
The FIDE World cup is organsied by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The first FIDE World Cup in the current format was held in 2005 and now it is being held after every two years .
It is an eight round eight-round knockout tournament featuring top 206 world chess players. All matches consist of two classical games.If the two-game match ends in a tie, players contest the tiebreakers.
The event has a $1,834,000 prize money with $110,000 going to the winner. The top-three players also qualify for the 2024 FIDE CandidatesTournament.
A Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament hosted by FIDE, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.
Past Champions of the FIDE World Cup
|
Edition |
Year |
Host |
Winner |
Runners Up |
|
1 |
2005 |
Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia |
Levon Aronian of Armenia |
Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine |
|
2 |
2007 |
Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia |
Gata Kamsky of USA |
Alexei Shirov of Spain |
|
3 |
2009 |
Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia |
Boris Gelfand of Israel |
Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine |
|
4 |
2011 |
Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia |
Peter Svidler of Russia |
Alexander Grischuk of Russia |
|
5 |
2013 |
Tromso, Norway |
Vladamir Kramnik of Russia |
Dmitry Andreikin of Russia |
|
6 |
2015 |
Baku, Azerbaijan |
Sergey Karjakin of Russia |
Peter Svidler of Russia |
|
7 |
2017 |
Tbilisi, Georgia |
Levon Aronian of Armenia |
Ding Liren of China |
|
8 |
2019 |
Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia |
Teimor Radjabov of Azerbaijan |
Ding Liren of China |
|
9 |
2021 |
Sochi, Russia |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Poland |
Sergey Karjakin of Russia |
|
10 |
2023 |
Baku, Azerbaijan |
Magnus Carlsen of Norway |
P. Praggnanandhaa of India |
FIDE
The International Chess Federation or French acronym FIDE Fédération Internationale des Échecs) is an international organization that was set up on 20 July 1924 in Paris, France .
It is the international body which governs world chess championships .
President of FIDE: Arkady Dvorkovich,
Headquarters of FIDE : Lausanne , Switzerland
