“Long, crazy day”: r pragnanandhaa reveals raw emotion after beating d gukesh to tata steel chess title

Grandmaster rameshbabu pragnanandhaa didn'T Envisage Such a “Crazy Day” With Eight Hours of World Class performance after with he pipped reigning world Ournament. “It was very long, close to eight hours, the first game itself lasted like 6.5 hours and then we had this blitz, it was a crazy day,” He said. On the impact of this Victory, Pragnanandhaa Said, “This is a very special event in the chess world and I have seen games from this tournament grown up. Ament. “

“I think it showed in my play that I was quite ambitious in all the games trying to fight, that's why we we saw many decisive games.” For the records, Pragnanandhaa Won Six Drew Five and Lost two Games Overall. About his future plans, Pragnanandhaa said the he will be competing at the Prague Masters.

“I knew whats wrong in the last six months and i knew what I needed to work on. I will keep trying to get better at. I Changed some things for this tournament (in My Play) and IT WORKED .

Speaking about the first two games of the tiebreaker wherein he lost one and won the return game pragnanandhaa pointed out

In the second game, gukesh had a fin position but was gradually outplayed. In the third game, the decider, Pragnanandhaa was again on the defensive without

Speaking about his errors in the classical game that he lost Against Vincent Keymer of Germany after Attain a Fine Position in the Middle Game The Indian Admitted that He Did Strange Things.

“I liked that position (Middle-game), and then I started to do some strange things, at this point I was that gukesh had lost, but then I can Phoch Than sit and suffer in this position. I Can't Resign, I can't make any moves. I just have to wait and suffer.

Asked how he could get back to playing the tie-breker in good shape pragnandhaa said, “I was upset, but had an options to try, I was just trying to calm mysef Tried to rest. ” The Chennai Based Further Added That: “This was like one time options. I could get upset and lose. I was not happy with the way I play I Played The Final Game (Against Keymer) But I Could Still Win the event and talk thing.

“We both (he and gukesh) very happy to get this options to play as we both get outplayed today.”

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