Astounding Pranav Venkatesh wins Challengers Final Four and Challengers Chess Tour 2022

by Shahid Ahmed - 31/10/2022

GM Pranav Venkatesh is quite familiar with balancing two events simultaneously having different formats. He won an individual Gold medal on Board no.1 for India at World Youth Under-16 Olympiad earlier this month. He also won the Magnus Academy Challenge at the same time. The 15-year-old boy is curently playing at the Asian Continental Championship 2022. However, he also managed to win the Challengers Final Four beating Andrey Esipenko 2.5-1.5 in the Semifinals and Raunak Sadhwani 3-0 in the Finals to win the entire Challengers Chess Tour 2022. He will face Praggnanandhaa in Tel Aviv, Israel this December. Photo: chess24

Pranav set to square off with Praggnanandhaa this December

This December, India's 75th GM Pranav Venkatesh will battle GM R Praggnanandhaa in a match at Tel Aviv, Israel. Total US$ 10000 prize pot will be up for grabs.

GM Pranav Venkatesh is the winner of Challengers Chess Tour Challengers Final Four | Photo: chess24

Despite starting with a loss at the Asian Continental 2022, Pranav drew the second game with FM Ojasva Singh and won the next three games against - IM Dushyant Sharma, GM Laxman R R and GM Mitrabha Guha. He is now at 3.5/5. This tournament win and the entire tour triumph is certainly going to give him for the rest of the tournament.

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Replay the live commentary of Challengers Final Four Semifinals by GM Judit Polgar and GM Pepe Cuenca | Video: chess24

Replay the live commentary of Challengers Final Four Finals by GM Judit Polgar and GM Pepe Cuenca | Video: chess24

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