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Chess: World No.1 Magnus Carlsen avenges defeat against India’s R Praggnanandhaa

The Free Press Journal | 23/03/2022 03:49 PM | Click to read full article

Magnus Carlsen had his revenge against R Praggnanandhaa. In a Charity Cup prelim stage game on Tuesday, the world champion outplayed the wonder kid from Chennai to sail through to the quarter-finals of the championship.

To the heartbreak of the Indian teen, he narrowly missed out on a place in the knockouts, just as his compatriots P Harikrishna and Vidit Gajarathi.

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