R Pragggnanandhaa reached a historic milestone on Friday, June 27, when he became an Indian chess player No. 1 in the live ranking. A 19 -year -old man achieved this performance by defeating the Uzbekistani nodirbek Abdusattorov with black pieces in the last round of the Uzchess Cup Masters.
With the victory, the live rating of Pragggnanandhaa jumped to 2778.3. This was done by Indian Grand Master No. 4 on the ranking, which is the highest he has achieved in his career so far. Nineteen -year -old jumped to three places to be on site 4 at the moment before his compatriot and world champion D Gukesh, who has a rating of 2776.6.
Rameshbabu Pragggnanandhaa is a player of India No.1 in live rating! Pragg defeated Nodirbek Abdusattorov with black pieces in the last round of the Uzchess Cup Masters today.
With this victory, Pragg will be the first world No. 4 and India No. 1, 2778.3 in living rating! pic.twitter.com/ckgxbirwo0– Chessbase India (@chessbaseindia) 27th June 2025
Arjun Erigaisi, who was the highest player in India until Thursday, slipped from the third to sixth place in the living charts. Magnus Carlsen continues to lead a ranking with a ranking of 2839.2, followed by Hikaru Nakamura (2807,0) and Fabiano Caruana (2784,2). With a kind permission: 2700chess.com
At the beginning of the day, Pragggnanandhaa was a point behind the leader Abdusattor and half a point behind Sindarov, who was second. Finally, Sindarov drew to end up with 5.5 points in nine rounds. Pragggnanandhaa ensured the victory to become a three -way tie.
In the first round of Tie-Breaks, which was a double round tournament, all players ended two points out of four. In the second round of Pragggnanandhaa defeated Sindarova while Sindarov defeated Abdusattor and between Pragggnanandhaa and Abdusattorov there was a draw.
Fantastic 2025 Pragggnanandhaa continues
The new rating for Pragggnanandhaa is just another chapter in what was fantastic 2025. Indian Grand Master beat Gukesh at the beginning of the year Tata Steel Masters 2025 claimed in a stunning way. After Viswanathan Anand, the first Indian won the title since 2006.
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Published on:
27th June 2025
