Persevering with his awe-inspiring streak, fourth seed Arjun Erigaisi received the Abu Dhabi Masters chess title by scoring two back-to-back victories in lower than 24 hours in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
After inflicting a defeat on a struggling top-seeded Chinese language Wang Hao within the eighth spherical on Wednesday night, Arjun returned on Thursday morning to complete the job by stopping ninth-seed Spaniard David Anton.
Actually, till Anton erred in judgment on the 62nd transfer, the sport was headed for a draw. Arjun noticed Anton’s blunder and compelled his resignation on the 67th transfer to emerge as a worthy champion.
The last-round victory was essential for Arjun to emerge as a transparent champion. Within the case of a last-round draw, Arjun would have been tied at seven factors with Uzbekistan’s Jovokhir Sindarov who had a greater tiebreak rating. Finally, Sindarov completed runner-up. Considerably, the sturdy 148-player subject boasted a mean ranking of 2396.
For his stupendous unbeaten effort in scoring 7.5 factors from 9 rounds, Arjun collected $15,000. Rated 2689, Arjun carried out at a whopping 2893 degree and earned 22 ranking factors. As per the dwell rating, Arjun is positioned at a career-best twenty fourth and third – behind Viswanathan Anand (twelfth) and D. Gukesh (twentieth) – amongst Indians.
Nihal Sarin led a pack of 5 Indians at 6.5 factors who occupied sixth to tenth spots. Amongst them was Aditya Samant, who got here up with a Grandmaster-norm efficiency. Rated 2430, Aditya carried out at 2709 and ended his marketing campaign by gorgeous third-seed Russian Alexandr Predke.
Within the earlier rounds, Aditya drew with Nihal and Aryan, and overcame Abhijeet Gupta, and Australian GM Temur Kuybokarov earlier than drawing with eleventh seed Argentine Sandro Mareco.
The caravan now strikes to Dubai for the Dubai Open match starting on Saturday. Becoming a member of the sturdy and enormous Indian brigade can be R. Praggnanandhaa because the fourth seed.
Closing Standings
1. Arjun (7.5 factors)
2 Sindarov (Uzb, 7)
3. Foreest (Ned, 6.5)
4. Robson (USA, 6.5)
5. Yakubboev (Uzb, 6.5)
6. Nihal (Ind, 6.5)
7. Sethuraman (Ind, 6.5)
8. Aditya (Ind, 6.5)
9. Karthikeyan (Ind, 6.5)
10. Aryan (Ind, 6.5)
11. Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (Arm, 6.5)