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GM Arjun Erigaisi successful enactment successful the 3rd circular of the Chennai Grand Masters tourney astatine the Anna Centenary Library successful Chennai.
(PHOTO: Chennai Grand Masters)
Arjun Erigaisi roseate to the satellite nary 2 spot successful the unrecorded ratings (which are updated successful existent time) connected Thursday aft beating Alexey Sarana successful Round 3 astatine the Chennai Grand Masters tourney successful Tamil Nadu’s capital.
In the unrecorded ratings, Arjun Erigaisi present has 2805.8 standing points, which saw him nudge up of USA’s Fabiano Caruana (who has 2805.0) and American GM Hikaru Nakamura (2802.0). India’s Gukesh, who volition vie against Ding Liren successful the World Chess Championship aboriginal this month, is 5th successful the unrecorded rankings with 2783.0 points.
Only Magnus Carlsen is up of Arjun astatine the infinitesimal with 2831.0 points successful the ratings.
Just past month, Arjun Erigaisi had go the 16th subordinate to ever interaction 2800 standing points. He could not officially articulation the 2800 nine that has 14 members arsenic helium had dropped beneath 2800 by the clip the monthly standing database was published by FIDE.
previously, helium had besides go the World nary 3. But talking to The Indian Express, Arjun had spoken astir his feelings astir milestones similar World nary 3 and 2800 standing points.
“They bash consciousness good. But they don’t substance that much. Last year, if it happened, I would beryllium precise happy. And if I fell behind, for example, I would beryllium precise sad. There would beryllium a wide alteration of emotions. That’s nary longer the case. It feels bully if it happens. But adjacent if it doesn’t happen, I’m inactive happy,” Arjun Erigaisi had told The Indian Express.
How Arjun Erigaisi bushed Alexey Sarana
On Thursday against Sarana, Arjun opted for a St Petersburg Variation successful the Nimzo-Indian Defense, Arjun Erigaisi took down Sarana with achromatic pieces successful 37 moves. Sarana had managed to erode the antiaircraft enactment of pawns successful beforehand of Arjun’s king portion keeping his ain king ensconced down 3 pawns. But connected the 26th move, the Serbian erred by pushing his pawn to h4, which caused his vantage connected the eval barroom to collapse.
Eventually Sarana crumpled erstwhile Arjun’s pawn connected the d record started to scope the endzone to gain a promotion.
For Arjun Erigaisi, this is his 2nd triumph successful the tourney aft 3 rounds. Arjun had besides brought down compatriot and Chess Olympiad teammate Vidit Gujrathi successful the archetypal circular aft a marathon struggle.
The 21-year-old Arjun frankincense reinforced his pb astatine the apical of the Masters category, which helium jointly leads the tract which has a standing mean of 2729 on with Amin Tabatabaei aft 3 rounds.
Vidit, meanwhile, earned his archetypal points acknowledgment to a gully against Indian GM Aravindh Chithambaram. In different matches, Amin Tabatabaei stunned Maxime Vachier-Lagrave portion Levon Aronian claimed a beardown triumph implicit Parham Maghsoodloo.
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