It's about staying grounded for teen chess sensation R Praggnanandhaa

Three months after stunning Carlsen and Levon Aronian in the Airthings Masters tournament, the Indian chess prodigy had come up with another impressive performance by finishing second at the Chessable Masters earlier this week.

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The 16-year-old Praggnanandhaa from Chennai fought back to win the second set after having lost the opener, but then lost the two-game blitz tie-breaker against Liren.

In the semi-finals, he defeated world No. 9 Anish Giri of the Netherlands before going down to Chinese world number two Ding Liren to finish runner-up in the $150,000 event. "I don't try to celebrate at all. It's nothing compared to what they all have achieved. It's definitely a big thing, but not like it's not something that they have all achieved," the youngster from Chennai said in a virtual media interaction. "All the three players are tough to beat. It's not easy to beat them. They all are very strong. It's always fun to play all three of them, I really enjoy playing top players. It's fun." His semifinal match against Giri went up to 2am and a few hours later, he had to be at his school to take his 11th-class board examination. And he returned after the examination on the same day to face the Chinese player Liren. The teenager initially thought of managing both -- studies during day time and playing chess in evening -- but ultimately realised it's too draining on his body. "I didn't expect that managing both would be tougher, I wanted to play at night and study in the morning. But I realised studying also makes you tired. You just get double tired. "The whole week I didn't get enough sleep, still actually tired. But it should not be a