This comes days after he defeated world number-one Magnus Carlsen for the first time in classical chess on Wednesday, May 29, at the Norway Chess 2024 tournament.
After the two-game classical series ended 1-1, the 18-year-old Indian prodigy outlasted the highly-rated American GM in a battle of wits in a nerve-wracking tie-breaker.
Praggnanandhaa waged a gritty battle against the American to share the honours in 78 moves.
India 1 (women), who were the sole leaders going into the final, suffered a 1:3 defeat as their star performers, Tania Sachdev and Bhakti Kulkarni, conceded their first losses of the tournament.
All six Indian teams won all their games in Friday’s first round, scoring a whopping 24/24—a record of sorts.