On Sunday (October 16), the 19-year-old Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi defeated the reigning five-time International Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen all over the prelims of the Aimchess Speedy on-line chess match.
That is the primary victory of Erigaisi over Carlsen. Erigaisi had previous misplaced to Carlsen within the Julius Baer Era Cup ultimate in September. The Indian grandmaster defeated the sector champion in Spherical 7 of the preliminaries of the Aimchess Speedy on-line chess match.
After 8 rounds within the match, the Indian grandmaster has been ready to safe the 4th place. It will have to be discussed that the Aimchess Speedy match includes a overall of 16 avid gamers, together with 5 from India.
Arjun Erigaisi is now two issues at the back of Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan. He had previous misplaced out to Magnus Carlsen all over the overall of the Julius Baer Era Cup on-line match.
Consistent with Chess Base, the Indian grandmaster had an Elo ranking of 2559 in March 2020. On the other hand, he has witnessed a meteoric upward push prior to now 2.5 years to change into the twenty first highest-rated participant on this planet. Arjun Erigasi these days has a 2728 Elo ranking.
Previous in August, a 17-year-old Indian Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu defeated international champion, Magnus Carlsen, on the FTX Crypto Cup, the American finale of the Champions Chess Excursion, in Miami.
This was once the 3rd time this yr that Praggnanandhaa defeated Carlsen. The Indian prodigy gained the sport within the blitz tiebreaker after the ranking was once tied at 2-2.