The final match between the World Rank 1 Magnus Carlen and Indian 18-year-old grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa ended in a draw on Wednesday during the second game of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Cup final.All India Chess Federation (AICF) president Sanjay Kapoor said on Wednesday that the worlds number one chess player Magnus Carlsen could have been aggressive and taken his chances during the match however he believes that R Praggnanandhaa will emerge victorious in the tie-breaker on Thursday.“Today, Carlsen had white pieces and Praggnanandhaa had black. Magnus could have been aggressive and taken his chances. But he did not. It is a great feat for our young Turk Prag (Praggnanandhaa). When you see a young player like him do so well, draw games against Magnus, it means that he is playing on par with him,” said the AICF chief in an interview with ANI.AICF president congratulates Praggnanandhaa on reaching FIDE World Cup finalRead @ANI Story | https://t.co/0v6bWxVWo3 #SportsMinister #AnuragThakur #Chess #RameshbabuPraggnanandhaa #Praggnanandhaa #FIFEWorldCup pic.twitter.com/wX3gV9pYTh— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) August 22, 2023The Classical Chess World Cup final between Indias Praggnanandha and Norways Carlsen ended in a draw on Wednesday with a winner yet to be decided. On Thursday the final tie-breaker is set to be conducted between the two featuring a shorter time format.Heres how tie-breaker will proceedThe tie-breakers will be played in the rapid and blitz format. It will start with the rapid format, which is a set of two games where both the players will have 25 minutes of time control and will get an increment of 10 seconds per move, starting from move 1.If this does not work out and provide a winner then the players will move into an even shorter time period, where the players will play two more games with a time control of 10 minutes for each player. Each player will get a 10-second increment per move, starting from move 1.If even that does not provide any result then there will be two more games with a time control of 5 minutes for each player + 3 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.If the competition still ends in a draw then the blitz portion of the tiebreak will start which is the equivalent of sudden death. Previously two games made a set but in the blitz portion, players will play one game with a time control of 3 minutes and a 2-second increment per move, starting from move 1. This format shall be repeated until theres a winner.Praggnanandhaas incredible World Cup runIn the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Cup being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, Praggnanandhaa reached the finals after defeating World Rank 3 Fabiano Caruana in tiebreaks and reached the final to set up a clash with Carlsen.Despite being less experienced than Carlsen, Praggnanandhaa will head into the tie-breaker high on confidence, considering the past results. The chess prodigy had defeated Carlsen thrice on the trot in rapid and blitz in 2022.He had also defeated World Rank 2 Hikaru Nakamura to reach the finals and is only the second Indian after Viswanathan Anand to reach the finals of the Chess World Cup. Anand had won the first two World Cups back in 2000 and 2002.
