When will Praggnanandhaa's 2023 Chess World Cup final end?

Indian sports fans have been waking up to the rhythm of international chess over the last two weeks, as the country's young Grandmasters - led by the 18-year-old Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa - have stormed into the citadel of the global game at the 2023 Chess World Cup in Baku.

Praggnanandhaa, who has become the youngest ever Chess World Cup finalist and the first from India since Viswanathan Anand two decades ago, has already defeated world number 2 and world number 3 on way to the final. Only world number one, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, stands in his way now.

One more day of action remains in the final between Praggnanandhaa and Carlsen following two ties in the two classical games over Tuesday and Wednesday.

The winner of Thursday's tie-break will win the World Cup and take home prize money of $110,000. The tie-break will begin from 4:30 PM IST.

Praggnanandhaa's tie-break success

Recent history shows that Praggnanandhaa has a better chance of clinching the World Cup title now that the final has gone into a tie-break and into the last scheduled day of the three-week-long tournament.

Praggnanandhaa defeated all of Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigasi and Fabiano Caruana at the ongoing World Cup via tie-breaks - prevailing over all of them.

Carlsen, on the other hand, has only played in the faster time control formats once so far in the World Cup.

Tie-break format on Thursday

There will be two tie-break games in rapid format on Thursday with a time control of 25 minutes for each player + 10 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.

If those two tie-break games do not find us a winner, the players will play two more games in rapid format with a time control of 10 minutes for each player + 10 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.

If that also does not find a winner, there will be two more games with the time control of 5 minutes for each player + 3 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.

If that also does not find a winner, the contest enters sudden death where a single blitz game with a time control of 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1 shall be played to determine the winner. This single game will be repeated until there’s one winner.

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