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Arjun Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003) is an Indian chess grandmaster and India's highest ranked player as of June 2024, overtaking former world champion Viswanathan Anand. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days, making him the 32nd youngest person ever to achieve the title of grandmaster. He is the 54th grandmaster from India. He won the 2022 Indian National Championship.
Decisions Title FIDE PB / Congress Status: Grandmaster: 89th FIDE Congress 2018, 26 Sep - 6 Oct, Batumi, Georgia: YES: International Master: 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, July 8-11, Bucharest, ROU
Arjun Erigaisi is an Indian grandmaster, one of a quartet of star Indian players born between 2003 and 2006—the others being GMs Gukesh D, Praggnanandhaa R, and Nihal Sarin—who all made major leaps into the world elite in the 2022-23 time period.. The player's full name is Arjun Erigaisi and they confirmed to Chess.com that they preferred to be called by their first name, Arjun.
Jun 19, 2024 · GM Arjun Erigaisi once again proved unstoppable as he dominated the Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2024 which took place in Jermuk, Armenia from June 10-18. New research shows only two players can match his meteoric rise to the world's elite, but the Indian 20-year-old says he's stopped paying attention to ratings and rankings.
Jun 10, 2024 · —Arjun Erigaisi. Arjun's success is attributed to the fact that he's winning almost every game he plays—something he has to do to keep his rating as high as it is. At the French Team Chess Championship, he gained 10 points, dropping just three draws while winning six games against almost all-GM opposition.
White Player Rating Black Player Rating Result Moves Site Date ; 1: Erigaisi, Arjun Kumar: 2761: Santos Latasa, Jaime: 2626: 1-0: 30: Leon: 29 Jun 2024: 2: Erigaisi ...
Jun 2, 2024 · India’s Arjun Erigaisi continued to ascend in the FIDE world live ratings as he now went above Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi to become the new World No. 4 after beating France’s Loic Travadon in the French Team Chess Championship 2024 on Sunday. With a career-high rating of 2771.2, the Warangal wunderkind is just behind Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, USA’s Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana in the live rating list. ...
GM Erigaisi Arjun. Federation India. FIDE profile35009192. Age this year21. Classical2748. Rapid2671. Blitz2744. Recent tournaments Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 February 29th - March 7th | 8-player Round-Robin | Classical time control | Giri, Erigaisi, Dubov 2023 FIDE World Blitz Championship | Boards 1-30 December 29th - 30th | 21-round Swiss | Blitz time control | Carlsen, Caruana, Nepo
Feb 10, 2021 · Arjun Erigaisi as a Board 1 player managed to beat Andrey Esipenko and Nodirbek Abdusattorov on the same day. Abdusattorov is ranked #4 in the World Junior rankings today and Esipenko who is the #2 junior player in the world recently beat the world champion Magnus Carlsen at the Tata Steel Chess tournament. It is no wonder that Srinath Narayanan considers this tournament, an enduring memory from his interactions with Arjun. ...
Arjun Erigaisi is now World No. 4, the 2024 Challenger Gukesh D. holds the World No. 7 spot, and Praggnanandhaa R. is ranked World No. 8. Arjun made a remarkable leap from World No. 8 by gaining 17 rating points, while Praggnanandhaa soared from World No. 14 with an impressive 15-point increase. This historic achievement underscores the rapid rise of Indian chess on the global stage. ...
