Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu is an Indian chess player. He won the title of the fourth youngest Grand Master in history. He also became the youngest international champion in chess history at the age of 10. Praggnanandhaa started playing chess at an early age and won the World Youth  Championship in his chess championship at the age of seven. 

 In June, Praggnanandhaa (RP), a Class VIII student at Bella Marma Tricuration High School in Chennai, defeated Italian Grandmaster (GM) Luca Moroni Jr. in the eighth round of the Grenadine Open in Urtisee, Italy. Sometimes it swept the world of chess. He was named the youngest GM in India and the second youngest in the world (12 years and ten months). This is the title awarded by FIDE, the world chess federation. As of 12 years and seven months, Ukraine's Sergey Karjakin is the youngest GM in the world.

The youngest of two children of A. Rameshbab, manager and housewife, Nagalakshmi RP of Tamil Nadu Cooperative Bank, began playing this complex mind game at the age of three, inspired by her older sister R. Vaishali, who is also a GM. I was. He began training at the age of four under S.Thyagarajan at the city's Bloomchess Academy. By the age of five, he started competing and winning county and state-level championships, and by the age of six (2012), he had won the gold medal at the U-7 National Championships in Pondicherry.

Since then, there has been no stopping this young chess prodigy who has won multiple national and international titles. Among them is the gold medal at the  Asian Youth Chess Championship U8 (2012) in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. U8 and U10 World Youth Chess Championships in Dubai (2013) and Greece (2015). Two years ago, he was awarded the title of International Master at the 9th KIIT International Chess Festival (2016)  in Bhubaneswar. This teenage prodigy Mantell is now packed with ten gold medals, four silver medals, one bronze medal, and several certificates.

Praggnanandhaa defeated Carlsen in the eighth round of  Airthings Masters,  another online chess competition. Praggnanandhaa became the youngest player to beat Carlsen in a chess game with the win. Because the latter was crowned world champion in 2013.

Naturally, the past three years have been busy for this young man who has had to balance domestic and international travel with school exams. However, he believes that the intellectual discipline required by the game rules makes academic achievement possible. “Management of my studies is relatively easy. My priority is to work, train and come up with ideas to become a world champion,” he says with quiet determination.