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Arjun Erigaise and Abhijeet Gupta are favourites for the Delhi Worldwide open chess event
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- Final Up to date:March 21, 2022, 19:41 IST
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Grandmasters Arjun Erigaise and Abhijeet Gupta will begin as favourites when the nineteenth version of the Delhi Worldwide open chess event will get underway right here on Tuesday.
Arjun begins as the highest seed, whereas defending champion and five-time Commonwealth champion Abhijeet would be the third seed. Russian Pavel Ponkratov has been seeded second.
The event, which returns after a COVID-induced break, could have a single occasion with Rs 25 lakh as prize purse.
The occasion shall be performed over 10 rounds and roughly 300 gamers have already registered for it.
This consists of gamers from 12 nations, aside from India, and a complete of 21 Grandmasters, three Ladies Grandmasters, 26 Worldwide Masters and 6 Ladies Worldwide Masters.
“The previous two years haven’t been the sort for off line chess tournaments however out of the blue we’ve a flurry of Worldwide occasions now,” stated All India Chess Federation Secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan.
That is the second occasion in a row after the Guwahati Worldwide that ended on Sunday.
After this occasion, the caravan will transfer to Ahmedabad for the ultimate instalment of the triple GM Worldwide occasions in India.
India has additionally gained the bid for the Chess Olympiad to be performed later this 12 months in Chennai.
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