India, July 20 -- India's teen grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa has registered a second victory over Magnus Carlsen in the space of three years at the Las Vegas Freestyle Chess tournament. He had previously registered a victory over the World No.1 in a classification game for the quarter-final spots, and now he has handed him a fresh defeat in the classification games to finish in third place at the event.

Praggnanandhaa, who was playing with white pieces, forced the five-time world champion Carlsen to resign in 43 moves in the first game on Saturday. On the fourth rank, the Indian grandmaster had three central pawns lined up next to each other.

On move 18, Carlsen decided to sacrifice his queen in return for a bishop and knight fr...