Indian ace Arjun Erigaisi started his marketing campaign within the Masters part of the Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters chess event right here on Thursday with a win over American Awonder Liang. German Vincent Keymer posted the one different victory within the Masters occasion on the opening day of the event by getting the higher of Indian’s Nihal Sarin.
The 21-year-old Arjun, enjoying with white items, obtained an early benefit earlier than breaking down his opponent’s defence. The American fumbled within the center recreation earlier than resigning after his forty ninth transfer.
Good starting…
Speaking after the match, the Indian GM stated, “It’s nice to start with a win. But of course, the start doesn’t necessarily mean much because I had started well in my previous Classical tournament, but didn’t finish well.
Keymer and Nihal were involved in an exciting match with the German holding the aces for large parts. The 20-year-old Keymer took advantage of Nihal’s time trouble and took the full point when his opponent resigned after the 51st move.
“I think I was winning kind of completely, and then I messed it up even though I had like 20 minutes against zero. I thought it’s best not to get too low on time to not mess it up. But I messed it up exactly by not taking one more move of him,” he stated.
Vidit Gujrathi managed to get well from an inferior place to share honours with Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest. The all-Indian battle between V. Pranav and Karthikeyan Murali resulted in a stalemate after 44 strikes whereas Anish Giri cut up the purpose with American Ray Robson.
Three on high
In the Challengers part, there have been three decisive outcomes — M. Pranesh defeated Aryan Chopra and Leon Luke Mendonca beat G.B. Harshavardhan, each with white items, whereas Diptayan Ghosh scored over D. Harika when enjoying with black items.
The outcomes (first spherical): Masters: Arjun Erigaisi bt Awonder Liang (USA); V. Pranav drew with Karthikeyan Murali; Vincent Keymer (Ger) bt Nihal Sarin; Vidit Gujrathi drew with Jorden van Foreest (Ned); Anish Giri (Ned) drew with Ray Robson (USA).
Challengers: Leon Mendonca bt G.B. Harshavardhan; Abhimanyu Puranik drew with B. Adhiban; R. Vaishali drew with Pa. Iniyan; D. Harika misplaced to Dipatyan Ghosh; M. Pranesh bt Aryan Chopra.
Second spherical pairings: Masters: Karthikeyan vs. Liang, van Foreest vs. Arjun, Robson vs. Vidit, Nihal vs. Giri, Pranav vs. Keymer.
Challengers: Harshavardhan vs. Aryan, Dipatyan vs. Pranesh, Iniyan vs. Harika, Adhiban vs. Vaishali, Mendonca vs. Abhimanyu.
