The year of 2022 seems to be a fortunate one for rising talents in this country in the field of chess. Grandmasters Arjun Erigiasi, D. Gukesh, and R Praggnanandhaa proved their skills once again with their impressive performance and wins. Arjun Erigiasi became the winner and D. Gukesh managed to get second place in the 19th Delhi International open chess tournament. GM R Praggnanandhaa was honoured with the title of the winner at the renowned Reykjavik Open Chess tournament in Iceland only at the age of 16. Their remarkable victories came to them only on their brilliant performances.
More details about their performances in the respective tournaments
The remarkable victory in Delhi International Chess Tournament was not the 1st victory conquered by Arjun Erigiasi in a chess event held by Tata Steel. Just 8 weeks earlier, this bright Indian mind had surprised the world of chess with his triumph in the Tata Steel India Rapid tournament in Kolkata in November 2021. Arjun Erigiasi completed an entire point ahead of his competitor, Levon Aronian. GM R Praggnanandhaa also performed excellently against his competitor, Sam Shankland.
The youngest Grandmaster of India D. Gukesh, who is only 15 years old, advanced upon his 2 runner-up titles in March 2022 with the impressive title of winner in the 48th La Roda International Open Chess tournament. It was held in Castile-La Mancha, situated in the country of Spain where the GM R Praggnanandhaa took 3rd place.
Their recent/golden milestones in detail:
PRAGGNANANDHAA:
This 16-year-old frail-looking Indian boy from the Southern Metropolitan of Chennai is not a stranger to victory. Only at the age of 10, R Praggnanandhaa earned the title of the youngest International Chess Master in the history of this game. Only 2 years later, in the year 2018, Praggnanandhaa had become the then 2nd youngest grandmaster of chess in the world.
This young South Indian boy created history when he defeated Magnus Carlsen from Norway, who then was the number one chess champion around the globe, in a virtual chess tournament. The 16-year-old R. Praggnanandhaa earned his feat in his 8th round in the Airthings Masters, which is a virtual rapid chess tournament, in only 39 moves with the black pieces. R Praggnanandhaa is also only the 3rd Indian GM who has managed to win against Chess Master Magnus Carlsen besides Pentala Harikrishna and GM Viswanathan Anand.
ARJUN:
In August of the year 2018, Arjun Erigaisi earned the title of 54th Chess Grandmaster in India. Six out of nine scores at the Masters held in Abu Dhabi granted the then fourteenth-year-old (he was almost 2 weeks away from being fifteen) his 3rd GM norm. Let us take a glance at some of the most recent remarkable performances of Arjun Erigiasi.
Arjun Erigaisi received the title of the winner of the Tata Steel Challengers Tournament 2022 with one round to spare. Arjun Erigiasi was the winner of the rapid section of this event even when he lost to R Praggnanandhaa in the 2nd round. 4 consecutive wins after that took him to the final day of the event and he took 1st place.
Even when he secured the victory in this tournament this Indian teenager managed to earn one more victory soon after this event where he finished the tournament with a spectacular score of 10½/13. With this new victory, young Arjun has joined the status of Magnus Carlson and Hikaru Nakamura who had previously managed to win this title in the year 2019 and 2018.
GUKESH:
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh has earned the title of the winner in the 48th La Roda International Open Chess Tournament held in Castile-La Mancha situated in Spain. He defeated his competition, Victor Mikhalevski from Israel in the tournament's final round. Grandmaster Haik Mikaeli Martirosyan from Armenia was in 2nd place with 7.5 points. Another Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa from India finished in the 3rd spot at La Roda International Open followed by another Indian chess player, Raunak.
Gukesh tweeted that he enjoyed hospitality along with his staying in Castile-La Mancha and more necessarily clinching his first open-winner title of the year 2022. Especially after coming out of some quite near-misses and heartbreaks hinting at his defeat in March at the 19th Delhi International Open.
The youngest GM of India D Gukesh suffered one shocking defeat last month at the hands of unglorified Ranindu Liyanage from Sri Lanka in the 2nd round of the 19th Delhi International Open Chess Tournament.
Youth Chess in India, The young talents, A testing platform in the upcoming chess Olympiad
All of these young Indian grandmasters attribute their achievements to their supportive families and their mentors. Arjun Erigaisi is coached online by his mentor Victor Michaelosky currently from Israel.
After the stunning victory of R. Praggnanandhaa, a ton of guardians have been approaching his coach RB Ramesh to guide their kids also. Yet the GM also reminded these parents that the triumph that comes from the game of chess depends on their kids and not on their coach or mentor so much. He emphasized on the aspect that parents must let their kids appreciate the values and beauty of chess and enjoy the game rather than pressurize their children into it. This timely reminder from RB Ramesh comes at the moment when the entire India is celebrating the big victory of R Praggnanandhaa.
To sum it up
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