**Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa** is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is considered a chess prodigy, having become an international master at the age of 10, the youngest at the time to do so, and a grandmaster at the age of 12, the second-youngest at the time to do so.

**Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa** is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is considered a chess prodigy, having become an international master at the age of 10, the youngest at the time to do so, and a grandmaster at the age of 12, the second-youngest at the time to do so.

Praggnanandhaa was born on August 10, 2005 in Chennai, India. He started playing chess at the age of five, and quickly showed a natural talent for the game. He won the World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 title in 2013, and the under-10 title in 2015.

In 2016, Praggnanandhaa became the youngest international master in history, at the age of 10 years, 10 months, and 19 days. He achieved his first grandmaster norm at the World Junior Chess Championship in November 2017, finishing fourth with 8 points. He gained his second norm at the Heraklion Fischer Memorial GM norm tournament in Greece on 17 April 2018. He then completed his third and final norm at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup, becoming a grandmaster at the age of 12 years, 10 months, and 13 days.

Praggnanandhaa has continued to impress at the highest levels of chess. In 2022, he defeated then-world champion Magnus Carlsen in a rapid game at the Airthings Masters Rapid Chess Tournament. He also won the Asian Continental Chess Championship in 2022, and finished second at the FIDE World Cup in 2023.

Praggnanandhaa is one of the most promising young chess players in the world. He is already a grandmaster, and he has beaten some of the best players in the world. He is sure to continue to achieve great things in the years to come.