In the year 2022, which of the following chess champions was beaten by a 16-year old Indian chess player Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa?

Correct option is D

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa:

·        Grandmaster of chess Rameshbabu "Pragg" Praggnanandhaa was born in India on August 10, 2005.

·        He was a chess prodigy who became the second-youngest grandmaster at the time at age 12 after becoming the youngest international master at age 10 at the time.

·        He defeated world number one chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, of Norway , at the age of 16 in a rapid game on February 22, 2022, at the Airthings Masters Rapid tournament of the Champions Chess Tour 2022.

·        After the legendary chess players P Harikrishna and Vishwanathan Anand, he is the third Indian to defeat Magnus Carlsen.

·        He makes the history of the youngest player to ever do so.

·        He again defeated Carlsen in the Chessable Masters online rapid chess competition in May 2022, his second victory against him in three months.

·        After Abhimanyu Mishra, Sergey Karjakin, Gukesh D, and Javokhir Sindarov, Pragganandhaa is the fifth person under the age of 30 to hold the title of Grandmaster.

Incorrect options explanation:

·        Bobby Fischer, the American chess grandmaster and 11th World Chess Champion.

·        Magnus Carlsen became World Chess Champion in 2013 by defeating Viswanathan Anand. He retained his title against Anand the following year and won both the 2014 World Rapid Championship and World Blitz Champonship, becoming the first player to hold all three titles simultaneously, a feat which he repeated in 2019 and 2022.

·        Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (born May 23, 1951, Zlatoust, Russia, U.S.S.R.) is a Russian chess master who dominated world competition from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. (Read Garry Kasparov's Britannica essay on chess & Deep Blue.) Karpov moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) with his family early in life.

·        Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster and political activist who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000.