Arjun and Keymer get off to a successful begin

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, taking part in with white items, obtained an early benefit earlier than breaking down his opponent’s defence. The American fumbled within the center sport earlier than resigning after his forty ninth transfer.

Good starting…

Speaking after the match, the Indian GM mentioned, “It’s good to start out with a win. But after all, the beginning doesn’t essentially imply a lot as a result of I had began effectively in my earlier Classical event, however didn’t end effectively.

Keymer and Nihal had been concerned in an thrilling match with the German holding the aces for big components. The 20-year-old Keymer took benefit of Nihal’s time hassle and took the total level when his opponent resigned after the 51st transfer.

“I feel I used to be successful sort of fully, after which I messed it up though I had like 20 minutes towards zero. I assumed it’s finest to not get too low on time to not mess it up. But I messed it up precisely by not taking another transfer of him,” he mentioned.

Vidit Gujrathi managed to recuperate from an inferior place to share honours with Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest. The all-Indian battle between V. Pranav and Karthikeyan Murali led to a stalemate after 44 strikes whereas Anish Giri break 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 taking part in 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.