Praggy vs Carlsen: Second match ends in draw

Indian chess grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa said that he will come to continue his International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Cup final match against world number one Magnus Carlsen with a fresh mind and would try to get some rest because he has been playing a lot of tiebreaks. The second game of Classical Chess at the Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) World Cup final between Indian grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa and Norway’s world number one Magnus Carlsen ended in a draw on Wednesday, with the winner of the tournament set to be decided on Thursday. “I did not really think that he would go for a quick draw today, but I realised when he went for this line that he wants to make a draw; I was also fine with that. I also feel exhausted, as I said in the previous interviews. Now I can just give everything tomorrow and relax after that,” the grandmaster said after the game, according to a tweet by the International Chess Federation. “I did not feel he had a lot of energy; I did not think he was unwell. I hope he recovers for tomorrow,” he added. After the first game ended in a draw, Carlsen had said he had been suffering from food poisoning after his semifinal victory against Azerbaijan’s Nijat Abasov which eventually affected his preparation for the final of the FIDE Chess World Cup against Praggnanandhaa.