{"id":131984,"date":"2026-09-03T03:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/im-surprised-american-gm-after-pragg-wins-indias-historic-gct-title-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:35:44","slug":"im-surprised-american-gm-after-pragg-wins-indias-historic-gct-title-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/im-surprised-american-gm-after-pragg-wins-indias-historic-gct-title-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m surprised&#8217;: American GM after Pragg wins India&#8217;s historic GCT title | Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Grandmaster Levon Aronian has revealed how Praggnanandhaa turned a weakness he identified last year into a strength, helping the Indian grandmaster win the Grand Chess Tour (GCT) Finals. Aronian, who had beaten Praggnanandhaa in GCT Finals last year, praised the youngester&#8217;s progress and fighting spirit while admitting he was surprised by how quickly the Indian closed that gap.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Grandmaster Levon Aronian has revealed how Praggnanandhaa turned a weakness he identified last year into a strength, helping the Indian grandmaster win the Grand Chess Tour (GCT) Finals. Aronian, who had beaten Praggnanandhaa in GCT Finals last year, praised the youngester&#8217;s progress and fighting spirit while admitting he was surprised by how quickly the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/im-surprised-american-gm-after-pragg-wins-indias-historic-gct-title-exclusive\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;I&#8217;m surprised&#8217;: American GM after Pragg wins India&#8217;s historic GCT title | Exclusive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":131985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}