There’s one thing about chess and Chennai. The land of the legendary Viswanathan Anand will see a few of the world’s finest battle it out in the Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters event 2025 starting right here on Wednesday.
World No. 5 Arjun Erigaisi headlines a strong 10-player Masters field and will be the one to beat. Anish Giri is the second highest rated participant in the part and the Tenth-ranked Dutchman is anticipated to present a strong problem for the ₹25 lakh prime prize.
The skilled Vidit Gujrathi, Karthikeyan Murali, Nihal Sarin and Pranav Venkatesh are the different Indians in the fray as the host gamers are anticipated to mount a strong problem for the title.
The world No. 21 Vincent Keymer from Germany will look to make an impression and take a enormous step in direction of qualification for the Candidates event whereas the American duo of Awonder Liang and Ray Robson and Giri’s compatriot Jorden Van Foreest, all high-quality gamers in their very own proper, will be hoping to struggle it out for prime honours.
Keymer had remarked on Monday that with many younger and bold gamers in the fray, he anticipated a lot of intently fought video games.
Arjun, who missed out on making it to the Candidates occasion in 2024, would be eager to strike gold right here and earn essential FIDE circuit factors.
Karthikeyan, who was promoted to the Masters class thanks to Vladimir Fedoseev’s withdrawal, will fancy a few upsets.
In the Challengers occasion, IM G.B. Harshavardhan received a late call-up after Karthikeyan was moved to the Masters and would be testing out his wits towards established names comparable to Pa. Iniyan, Abhimanyu Puranik, D. Harika and R. Vaishali. The Challengers’ winner will e book a spot in the Masters occasion subsequent yr.
