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Abu Dhabi, 25 August
Indian grandmaster Arjun Erighesi defeated Spain’s David Anton Guijaro on Thursday at the 28th Abu Dhabi Chess Masters.
The 18-year-old beat the Spaniard by 7.5 points in the ninth and final round.
Arjun is also unbeaten in nine rounds, half a point ahead of Uzbekistan’s Javokhir Sindarov.
On the other hand, Sindarov beat Iran’s M Amin Tabatabaei for second place.
The Warangal lad is currently number 3 on the live ratings charts in India and his recent performance has been impressive with 35 Elo points after your recent Indian Chess Olympiad.
In Abu Dhabi, Arjun has six victories and a draw in the other three to become the clear winner in a field that includes several GMs from around the world.
His victories came from compatriots Rohit Krishna, Deep Sengupta, Raunak Sadhwani, China’s top seed Wang Hao, Alexsandr Indjic (Serbia) and Guijjaro. He drew with Evgeny Tomashevky (Russia), Jorden van Forest and Ray Robson.
A group of players, including Indians Nihal Sarin, SP Sethuraman, Karthikeyan Murali and Aryan Chopra, all GMs and FIDE Grandmaster Aditya Samant, scored 6.5 points.
Dutchman Jorden van Foreest finished third, followed by American Ray Robson and Sarin in sixth, followed by Sethuraman, Samant, Karthikeyan Murali and Chopra rounding out the top 10.
Another Indian general manager, Arjun Kalyan, was 15th, while the seasoned B Adhiban was 19th.
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