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2nd youngest Grandmaster
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- Chennai lad R Praggnanandhaa created history as he became India’s youngest and world’s second youngest Grandmaster (12 years and 10 months) after he made it to the final round of the Gredine Open in Italy.
- Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine had become the youngest Grandmaster at 12 years, 7 months back in 1990.
- Praggnanandhaa had already achieved his first GM norm in the World Juniors 2017, and he achieved his second GM norm at a closed round-robin tournament in Greece.
- It takes three norms and an Elo rating of 2500 to become a Grandmaster.
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