A 10 year old superstar

Praggnanandhaa is 10 years old and just played this amazing game today against a GM. He is rated over 2400 and that is expected to go up many points at this event. In round 1 he drew another GM and this time round he beats another GM. A few rounds ago he beat IM Maksim Chigaev. Pretty good for only 10 years old. GL to Magnus in the future!!

en.lichess.org/SNuZu4kb#0

very nice game using the light squares thanks noob2chess

he is from India, he has to be a prodigy because if he is 10 years old he has not had time to learn
amazing how they play so young these kids.
here is a link, yeah he is a kid, amazing
en.chessbase.com/post/praggnanandhaa-youngest-chess-im-in-history
they learn faster than adults like with enormous grace
I just dont imagine him reading books and analzying much
he is probably like Carlsen that he just sees the board and understands the position,
a player with intuition so to speak.

@Puzzletraining I respect players with intuition way more than players that have studied. Natural talent makes all the difference. Once he can study it will drastically improve his game even more. Just hope he does not lose his intuition.

I've always thought the talent/work dichotomy is vastly overblown in general, and is with chess as well.

A lot of work now is indicating that. The most well-known is Ericsson's research going back many years, but there's a lot of other work converging on similar conclusions.

Carlsen put in a LOT of time studying; if my memory serves it was said in that interview with Praggnanandhaa and his sister that they put in several hours of chess training every day after school. They also have a professional coach.

This pessimistic conclusion about talent can be taken too far, of course. Obviously there is an element of natural ability (or whatever term is preferred), as most who put in several hours a day will not reach that level at all, much less so quickly.

The work is not a sufficient condition, but it very much seems to be a necessary one.

Show me a strong GM who says they never studied much, and I'll show you someone telling a big fib :)

He is actually 11 years old (in the last month). Obviously this is still amazing, but a year makes a big difference when estimating his potential.

He will probably be history's youngest GM also, but it's worth nothing he started playing chess at two (!), so it's still hard to say how quickly he will improve.

then he is not that good if he started at 2, he has spent 8 years already.

What a positional battle!

Kramnik can embrace himself!

Thanks for posting, noob2chess! What was the time control on this game?

Thanks for posting.