How to beat a World Champion! Pragg shows the way! | Becomes India no.1

What a day for Indian chess!
1. Pragg beats Ding Liren, the World Champion with Black pieces. In 2023 Pragg beat Ding Liren on 17th of January. In 2024 he has done it on 16th of January.
2. Pragg becomes India no.1 on live ratings with 2748.3 surpassing Vishy Anand.
3. Pragg is the only Indian chess player apart from Vishy Anand to beat a reigning World Champion in a classical game!
Complete analysis by IM Sagar Shah
Solve the critical moments of this game on ChessRanga, ChessBase India's interactive platform for chess improvement: chessranga.com/exercises/65a7...
Video: ChessBase India
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[@ChessBaseIndiachannel]

This year Pragg won on 16th of January, but it was already 17th of January in India! :) Here's the ChessRanga Link to the game in interactive format: chessranga.com/exercises/65a74c5b88007f317db73092

[@Oji-7869]

Ding Dong Slayer

[@sujalpatil4562]

Sagar Sir.. There is some kind of glitch in the exercise of ding vs prag.. in the last exercise when there is kf3 played by white.. the best move is ng3 but inspite of this it is showing to retry

[@atulbesra822]

Prag does not choke while facing world champion unlike other Indian players. He finished the match clinically once he got his opportunity. It is this quality that will take him far.

[@choudharyratnadeep]

The problem with gukesh, he has a very talented player but he chokes in crucial matches!

[@jeecracker8955]

Yeah pragg has nerves of steel

[@ChessCube2]

​@@choudharyratnadeep Same with vidit

[@arun-it9gr]

​@@ChessCube2vidit does play very solid, but is known to lose crucial matches because of nerves

[@ADITYAKUMAR-tb4gm]

​@@choudharyratnadeep Gukii will come back. He's just having rough phase in past few months.

[@prakalp_]

Beating Ding consecutively in the same tournament same round year after year is INSANE 🔥 Congratulations to Pragg ❤ Now I really want him to win Candidates 2024 coz he would have a good psychological advantage over Ding with a +2 undefeated score ❤ Let's go India ❤

[@jeetu07_]

Aboslutely massive 💯💯💯

[@prashantsamaiya1793]

Let's play chess brother

[@prakalp_]

@@prashantsamaiya1793 SanguineVitality is my username.. Let's go 👍

[@shreyashshinde1283]

Pragg definitely got balls of tata steel🎉

[@prashantsamaiya1793]

Let's play chess 😊

[@hallu6666]

Pragg cannot be browbeaten. He just cares for his chess, not names playing against him. He is true championship material.

[@francoisotis3560]

I love Pragg's game style. He goes from super aggressive to super patient in a snap. Beautiful. Yeah he took b2 but at the end game he was one extra pawn... Amazing game. Great cover Sagar, as usual.

[@user-tt9js4gq2e]

Like a child, Sagar allows flow of his feelings.. like a New River... It is these small happiness and satisfactions keeps Chess community alive !!! Sagar, we all are excited too... After all the limelight Pragg is getting recent times, still his passion for Chess keeps him grounded. Gukesh maybe upset for not making similar against Ding, but, these makes Gukesh groom inside himself, and evolve as a Ever lasting Champion like Magnus. Many players are arising as Chess stars on global chess community... Best wishes to all of them, Hope Chess community is Happy to live in this Golden/Internet Age of Chess.🙏

[@kennethwoods6525]

"It is these sall moments of happiness and satisfactions [that] keeps the chess community alive!!" 👏

[@vaibhavmishra1754]

I was watching this live and had said that he gonna beat Ding as he has beaten Magnus on many occasions. People said it was classical. Well one thing is to be noted whether classical or rapid , when you are in good form and your chess is on rise , it grows overall. Prags rise is on the way. New champion might be in the corner soon.

[@muthukrishnankalyanasundar564]

Dhathasthu

[@PrinceJha-fz4cv]

Pragg never beat magnus in a classical

[@Rimonveeb]

what you mean classical? Classical is the real , original and the most prestigious game in Chess. It is the hardest in Chess.

[@V838monocerotis27]

No pragg has not beaten magnus in classical yet. He has only defeated him some unrated ftx crypto online tournament. Nevertheless magnus went to win the whole tournament in the end.

[@Rio_arc]

We know who ding won't be cheering for in the candidates 😅 What a win for Pragg 🔥 2-0 over ding

[@mohammadomarfaruk825]

Let's move forward with love for the beloved man, I want to see him number one in the world

[@subramanianrs318]

Pragg.🌟 But I fervently hope that Gukesh, instead of trying to be the swashbuckler ALL the time, developes the patience to play positionally as well and grind it out if need be!

[@susbedo9258]

Is anyone even surprised that Pragg beat Ding? 3 years ago, both Magnus and Hikaru has already mentioned that Pragg has massive potential to be the world's best in the future. Fast forward today, on his good day Pragg can beat Magnus, Hikaru and Ding comfortably.

[@yuvaraja571]

YES OR NO

[@yuvaraja571]

MAGNUS IS NON STOP AT CHESS, HE IS A CHAMPION

[@resonance4789]

beat those three comfortably? what a bold statement

[@jaguarunleashed4935]

​@@resonance4789 not sure about comfortability bar, but he's beaten them in recent times

[@AtulKumar-cz4wj]

My big salute to Pragg.He beats Ding with black is ..........

[@teokc1661]

Ding's main weapon is d4. He would not want to play with his 5 rival candidates with his weapon. Watch out his d4 to defend his title.

[@shiftyrazzy]

Love Prag, happy for him. I hope he keeps up this momentum. Would love to see him and Magnus in years to come

[@charliegarcia6677]

I’m telling pragg is the next, even magnus has high probs to prag and enjoys playing him all the time, even post his match up on his story

[@shubhamparmar9632]

congrats to Praggnanandha💞💞💞💞💞

[@arun-it9gr]

Abdusattorov and Praggu got great nerves under time pressure..

[@brianmcdonnell2466]

Your commentary on the non-verbals today live was hilarious and broke down how Ding felt inside 😂

[@MANUSHYA7]

😅😂

[@valdytzm]

Pragg monster slayer 🔥🔥

[@vladkamrat8609]

Nice recap.Thank you so much!

[@srikrishnarr6553]

Pragg looks like Professor Pragg with Specs.

[@REENAGUPTA-qj3bh]

Pragg never disappoints us🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@pissoff7407]

Has anyone noticed Pragg is starting to look like an anime character day by day!!!😮 Like a pro Shogi player❤

[@AbotDell]

This was a Preview of the World chess championship Goodluck Pragg Makes history And become youngest World chess champion

[@PeaceFORever-]

This is a different Pragg from an year ago . He will be world champ in next 3 years .. His level has significantly improved . I don’t think he is overrated for his elo . . Very happy for him . Never seen him tensed on board ! Great going pragg

[@gabrielvillanueva6187]

I think that Praggs style going from tactics to positional and viceversa, and from aggresive to caution is what gives him a solid edge in his games. Maybe he will become world champion maybe not, but Im sure he will beat most of the elite field any given day either in tactics or in positional style. Kudos to him and his team.

[@jacoboarellano2684]

very very wonderful explanation of the play game as always my chess friend, let me show as what say you very very super clear, excellent my friend chess as always. congratulation and greetings from argentina córdoba capital for to you. to the best styl of the powerfull and one best of alwais of time mister stockfish version 16 the best machine of all !!!!

[@GauravSharma-nb5yy]

Wow, yesterday I heard news about India - Argentina trade , now seeing a Argentine on KZbin Greetings from India too😊

[@rajarshisengupta9501]

Congrats to Pragg

[@harshakoushik9637]

Congratulation pragg

[@Vision.2026]

That glass look pragg❤❤ it's like seeing future champ with glasses

[@pbandre9773]

Oh he beat Ding with Black??? Pragg 😮 scary

[@EL-kf9vi]

Prag is a future WORLD CHAMPION. I said this earlier. Dings time has PASSED. Ding has come down to earth as a regular gm. NO longer IMMORTAL .

[@krishnaveni-dp6ws]

Congratulations

[@barghavansrinidhimohankuma921]

@chessbaseindiachannel you mentioned in 10:45 it’s closer to a draw than a win for white. Although you meant it’s closer to a draw than a win for Black. @sagar. Thanks for great coverage and good luck for future.

[@jaguarunleashed4935]

gg by pragg, however whats happened to DL. He has been such a strong player before

[@bmno.4565]

How come Chessbase doesn't have the original video

[@pratikshetty14]

thats not sagar in thumbnail!!

[@theNfl_Esq]

I didn’t know Fabiano was rated so high. It’s been a while since 2 American players have been at/near the top of chess.

[@user-wb2xw7ze9r]

இளம் கன்று பயம் அறியாது... A tamil proverb

[@81freewilly]

17th Jan Anish and Pragg anniversary?

[@srinathmupparam4107]

We want video of their playing bro

[@lssteeds]

nah bro ding slayer is a wild name

[@Oji-7869]

Ding Dong Slayer 😅🎉🎉🎉

[@imissmygirlbro8932]

To the people that kept hating on the commentators way of calling the game you suck I loved when he would amp it up with different tones and fast pack action please go back to it I love either style but I fell in love with the real old fashion way

[@kaustubhvaidya956]

Is is Liren or Lijen...... I have seen Sagar use both of these pronounciations.

[@garougg1]

Great for pragg ✨to beat ding this shows pragg well prepared for world championship But joke aside in chess board black pieces don't look like black pieces rather than brown pieces.

[@babu6984]

When I see Champion, Magnus only came to mind

[@surajes549]

Unofficial No:1 player in India for quite long time.

[@hide2dan]

Cute portrait

[@saadjsayed]

Its quite apparent that Ding is exhausted from Chess and is soon going to retire

[@shreyanshpandey5266]

What is this ding slayer😂😂😂

[@paperclips1306]

Vishi is still in the top . Damn

[@karanarora1468]

👍

[@sooryanarayana3929]

Do you get Deja vu?

[@mareeskumar5318]

Please inform pragg to have some light specs and some loose shirts, that will kind of be comfortable

[@onlysahil]

Bro, you can also speak Hindi for explanation , for English there is lot of videos so pls speak in Hindi a lit bit

[@hemchandrakhuraijam1073]

I only admire prrag after Anand

[@GautamSheth]

Ding played some very suboptimal moves which was very interesting. I don't think he would've played like this in a world championship match. I still believe gukesh is our best bet for candidates.

[@aakashpawar1348]

Your older style of commentary was much good. Current style seems like you are coping agadmator. Don’t change your style.

[@ankeshonyt]

The thumbnail is a little disrespectful, honestly. Does not go with the values of Chessbase India.

[@yurnerolanaya3768]

OVERPROUD!

[@theNfl_Esq]

Why are Indian players superior to the Chinese? Is it bc they emphasize GO?

[@elimlinrr6898]

Dinglirenism lost to Pragmatism.

[@anubhavkaushik7944]

thanks for comparing clothes , that is what matters the most in chess, and if your tiny cant understand sarcasm, please help urself

[@ujjwal10]

Sagar while commentating said Ding has come back to beat everyone's asses in Tata Steel, see his happiness now, what a hypocrite!

[@user-mo2iu4sx2t]

Just now i saw prag defeated liren Now i came to u just for clarification Worth varma worth 😂😂😂😅😅😅😅 Btw my rating is 2999 , eagerly waiting for prag for battle😝😝😝😝😛😛😛😛😛😛😜😜🤪🤪

[@andrewchebyrek9364]

Everyone knows Magnus is world champion

[@100_Million_Views]

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