Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is a chess grandmaster from India. He is the son of Rameshbabu and Nagalakshmi.
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His father, Rameshbabu, works at TNSC Bank as a branch manager and his mother, Nagalakshmi, is a homemaker.
His elder sister Vaishali Rameshbabu is also a chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Their father Rameshbabu introduced chess to his daughter Vaishali and son Praggnanandhaa because he thought they needed to cut down on watching television.
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“We had introduced Vaishali to chess so as to cut down on her TV viewing habits as a child. As it happened, the two children liked the game and decided to pursue it,” Rameshbabu recalled. “We are happy that the two are enjoying playing chess and also doing well thanks to their passion for chess.”
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa was the youngest international master at the time, at the age of ten, and the second-youngest grandmaster at the time, at the age of twelve.
He became the youngest player to defeat then-world champion Magnus Carlsen in a rapid game in the Airthings Masters Rapid Chess Tournament on 22 February 2022, at the age of 16.
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