India's Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa will face Norway's world champion, Magnus Carlse, in the final of the FTX Crypto Cup rapid chess tournament in Miami tonight.
   
The 210,000 dollar tournament is hinged on a last-round match between the two players who have dominated the competition thus far. In the sixth round, Carlsen defeated the Iranian-French teenager Alireza Firouzjain in tiebreaks.

On the other hand, R Praggnanandhaa battled back from the verge of defeat to force a blitz tiebreak in his sixth-round match against World Cup winner Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Poland.
       
After the sixth round, Carlsen, with 15 points, is now two points ahead of his Indian opponent. He will win the FTX trophy if he reaches tiebreaks in the seventh and final rounds tonight. Carlsen would then have 16 points, putting him ahead of both Pragg and Firouzja, who can only muster 15 points. To earn three points, Pragg must defeat Carlsen in rapid chess.