Chennai , dt . 24
India's Grandmaster Vidit Gujarati defeated world chess champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the Pro Chess League Rapid tournament in a career landmark victory .
This is an online tournament in which 16 teams play rapid chess . Vidit played with the Black Fishes . Carlson has been a five-time world champion and is the current champion . Vidit, playing for the Indian Yogis team, defeated Carlson of the Canadian chess team . Apart from Vidit, the Indian Yogis team consisted of Vaishali , Raunak and Aroniak . While in the Canadian team, there were Aryan Tari , Razwan Preotu and Jennifer Yu along with Carlson.
After the victory, Vidit tweeted , ' Just Defeated Great of All Time ', 28-year-old Vidit became the fourth player to defeat Carlson after Pragyananda , Gukesh , Arjun Arigeisi by the Grand Master. Three players from India beat Carlson in the same year of 2022 .
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