Praggnanandhaa on Sunday attributed the change in fortune to increased confidence and ambition
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw as black against American Hikaru Nakamura to remained in joint third position after the end of the fifth round of Norway Chess 2015, a part of the Grand Chess Tour.
Both Harikrishna and Carlsen drew all their four games on the opening day of the tournament as matches ended late on Saturday.
Viswanathan Anand scored a stunning win over Lev Aronian in the second round of the World Chess Championships.
Viswanathan Anand crushed Judit Polgar in the opening round of the World Chess Championships
India's Padmini Rout scored an impressive victory with plenty of fireworks to maintain her joint lead in the Girls section but favourite Viddit Santosh Gujrathi suffered a shock loss in the sixth round of the LIC World Junior Chess championship in Pune.
Vladimir Kramnik, playing with white pieces, fought his way back into the World Championship final with a 29-move win, cutting the Indian's lead to 6-4.
A title match requires months of preparation and pulling out of other events, putting together a team of seconds, etc. Carlsen just says he lacks the motivation to do this again.
Praggnanandhaa can take heart from the fact that he goes in to the candidates as the top rated Indian slated to be held in about four weeks from now in Toronto.
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk played out a draw with Yifan Hoa of China in the second game of the finals but still led by a point in the World Women's Chess Championship in Nalchik (Russia) on Monday.
Kasimdzhanov, playing black, easily split points with the second seed in the first game of the World chess championship final.
The Uzbekistan Grandmaster will meet Michael Adams of England in the final of the World chess championship.
The top seeded Grandmaster recorded his fifth straight victory in the World chess championship.
IM Neelotpal Das also continued with his good form and held GM Ashot Anastesian for the second time in the World Chess championship.
The Indian Grandmaster played a draw against highly regarded Ukranian in the first game of the second round in the World Chess Championship.\n\n
After six straight losses, Anand won his first game of the tournament despite conceding early advantage on Monday night.
The Indian Grandmaster drew his 13th round game against Alexander Grischuk of Russia, and needs only a draw against Peter Leko in the final round to win the World Chess Championship.
Viswanathan Anand beat Alexander Grischuk in the seventh round to shoot back into sole lead at the World Chess Championship.
Anand, with a draw in 57 moves stays in shared lead with Vladimir Kramnik, both having 2.5 points from four games.
Having won two games in a row with white pieces earlier in the tournament, Carlsen could do little against Anand this time and the Norwegian was not quite happy with his play.
Joining the Bulgarian in the semi-finals of the World Chess Championship are England's Michael Adams, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand defeated reigning World champion Magnus Carlsen to jump to the joint third spot after the end of the fourth round of Norway Chess tournament, in Stavanger.
Viswanathan Anand's woes in the Grenke Chess Classic continued as the five times world champion blundered yet again and went down to Levon Aornian of Armenia in the fifth round that concluded in Baden-Baden in Germany.
Chess governing body FIDE's general assembly agreed to consider lifting parts of a ban on Russian and Belarusian players imposed after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, in a vote on Sunday in Budapest.
Anand has 5.5 points and is tied for third with Alexander Morozevich in the tenth round of the FIDE World Chess championships.
The Indian ace was forced to take a draw in just 17 moves in the ninth round of the World Chess Championships.
Viswanathan Anand held an advantage but could not convert it into a win as he played a draw with Peter Leko in the fifth round of the World Chess Championships.
The Indian ace was held to a draw by Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the World Chess Championship.
'We need more support from states to back budding talents from not-so-affluent families.'
The British GM pulled off a scintillating victory over Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan to tie the World chess final 2.5-2.5.
GM Michael Adams made it to the finals of the World Chess Championship with a 2.5-1.5 win over GM Teimour Radjabov.
After beating Tatiana Kosintseva in the first game the Indian ace lost to the Russian in the second in the World women's chass championship.
World No. 4 Indian Arjun Erigaisi beat compatriot Vidit Gujrathi after five hours of end-to-end action in the opening round of the Chennai Chess Grand Masters 2024 in Chennai on Monday.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand continued to struggle against nemesis Magnus Carlsen of Norway and lost after a blunder in the fourth round of Grenke Chess Classic now underway in Baden-Baden, Germany.
The youngest FIDE rated player in the world is India's Tejas Tiwari, who achieved the feat at the tender age of five.
Anand went down to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France in what was his second straight loss following a defeat against Alexander Grischuk in the previous round.
Gukesh faced the in-vogue Italian opening as black against Caruana and the players battled it out in the main variation.
