Praggnanandhaa on his "drinking water from bottle" secret

since the last Waka celebrations in September 2022 prananda has grown from strength to strength from a rating of 2676 he has raced up to 2747 and world number 14 after the Olympiad in 2022 prug played at the Dubai open and finished join second at the Asian Championships held in New Delhi he won the tournament outright with 7 out of 9 to become the Asian champion at the Tata steel Masters in 2023 prug outwitted his first 2800 plus opponent in classical Chess By beating ding Len in a complex end game trugs rise to the absolute top began in July 2023 as he won the player of the tournament award at the global chess league for his team SG Alpine Warriors by scoring 8 and half out of 10 although the tournament was in Rapid format this gave prug a huge boost of confidence as he searched ahead at the heni memorial in Budapest scoring 6 and half out of and gaining 17 ELO points he broke into 2700 ELO and then came the biggest breakthrough of PR's career till date the fiday World Cup prag beat Maxim lagard in round one David Navara in round two world number three Hikaru Nakamura in round three fence Burkes in round four Arjun arigi in a massive match that went all the way to the Armageddon in the quarterfinals he then beat world number two Fabiano Karana in the semi-finals setting up a mega clash in the the finals with Magnus Carlson after two classical games the score stood at 1:1 but then Magnus managed to win the rapid game and prag had to settle for the silver medal however this performance proved that prag is one of the best in the world and he also booked his slot for the fiday candidates 2024 at the Spanish league prug showed another powerful performance scoring five out of seven prug won the silver medal at the Asian Games at the Tata steel Masters 2024 he showed his solidity by remaining unbeaten throughout the 13 Rounds at the Fay candidates 2024 FR scored 7 out of 14 and finished fifth just before this celebration that we are having right now frag managed to beat Magnus Carlson for the first time ever in over the board play at the superb leg of the grand chess tour in waro immediately after this ceremony he will now take a flight to Norway to play at the Norway chess 2024 one of the strongest classic events [Music] ever drug what a series of amazing performances you've had and really uh fantastic did you enjoy watching this and going back to 2023 and this entire one one and a half years yeah uh it felt good um yeah it's so amazing to see so much so many people coming here uh and every time they cheer it's yeah it feels really great and yeah much more tense standing here right now than playing a game so let's see I haven't asked you to say any jokes or anything so you don't need to be tensed yeah it depends on your questions okay okay I'm I'm going to keep it very simple uh prag there are few things that I wanted to talk about the highlights of your previous year there's one picture which everyone absolutely loved uh this was uh if we can have it on our screen that you met the prime minister of India along with your parents I think it was a big moment because you were able to go there spend time how was that feeling yeah it felt uh yeah really special um we didn't expect uh I finished the World Cup and I came back uh there was yeah huge reception at the airport and then uh I spent maybe less than 12 hours at home and I traveled to Delhi to meet uh honorable PM uh yeah we had a very nice chat 15 minutes uh 20 minutes but it never felt like I was speaking with uh someone so important as pm it felt like I was speaking to speaking to a normal like someone from the family or something like that um yeah we had a very yeah we were just talking about like my training and my tournaments coming up uh yeah I enjoyed being there there's one more picture which I found very special in from that period also was the um if we can have the next one the ISRO chairman coming home and taking a selfie with you you know I was brilliant yeah another special moment uh I remember during the World Cup um I I think it was the second game with Magnus uh during that uh um chandin was uh Landing uh and I think that game we uh we made a quick draw and I think by 10 minutes or something I missed to watch because of some interviews I had to give so uh sorry I don't if it India but okay uh but yeah uh and then I watched it live I I mean it was one of those very proud moments uh for everyone everyone of us and uh it felt yeah I was very honored to uh have S S at at our place and uh yeah we had a breakfast together and we were discussing about uh yeah about my my tournaments and stuff I was also asking him about uh about is and things like that so yeah I really enjoyed it beautiful beautiful and I want to ask one very important question a question that I think all of us have on our mind the next picture prag what does it mean when you drink water on the board it means I'm thirsty okay in general I drink lot of water and uh yeah it does happen that after you told in a lot of uh lot of videos that I do drink after I know the result yeah which yeah maybe just to calm myself that I know this game is over and just to yeah calm down maybe that's the reason but it's mostly because of thirst I think opponents are scared when you touch that bottle yeah wonderful PR I want to have wishy's thoughts on Wishy his one and half year which has passed by and you saw all that he has achieved what do you feel mes you can sit are you okay can I take a water now yes yes oh you feel that you this interview you've done well now that's what you feel may you everyone's drinking okay I remember this um stretch was it may I think May of last year till um I don't know if it didn't finish in result off um but his results were just outstanding and it felt that you know taking away past rating he was the best player in the world for those few months um so Global chess League Hungary uh World Cup and even and do was also a wonderful performance he was just doing this in every single tournament and the games were sparkling everything was um really in fact after that his um results are still excellent but compared to himself I think it is stabilized which is normal because you have sometimes these you're in your Zone and uh things go amazingly he's actually playing at a very high level um in in the candidates sometimes it comes down to one or two things you know one game goes your way a point here a point there and suddenly your tournament situation improves and you play differently uh by the end he was really pushing his uh luck uh you know taking a lot of uh risk but uh I'm very happy I mean his games still give me a lot of pleasure to watch because they're always very interesting ideas U and um sometimes once he gets going the sacrifices just so I think um success is guaranteed he is just a question of when but he will keep uh working very hard I'm sure beautiful thank you vishi for these insights and prag you can have a seat here and thank you for performing so beautifully and making us proud on innumerable occasions yeah thank you

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Published: Thu May 30 2024