India, Feb. 7 -- Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu will miss the first event of the inaugural Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, set to be held in Weissenhaus, Germany this month, despite the biggest victory of his career so far in a tremendous performance at the Tata Steel Chess Championship in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

Pragg's failure to qualify through Freestyle's online qualification tournament last month means that he failed to make the cut for the inaugural Freestyle event, which will invite 10 players under different criteria to participate in the curtain-raiser in Germany.

The Freestyle Tour, headed by German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner and supported by world number one and five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is set to begin af...