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Being World No 3 or 2800 don’t matter that much

Being World No 3 or 2800 don’t matter that much

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Earlier this month, Arjun Erigaisi stepped on Mount 2800, touching the elusive classical ratings barrier in chess that only 16 grandmasters have touched in history. At 21 years of age, Arjun Erigaisi is one of the youngest players to have achieved the feat which led everyone from five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing their delight at the young Indian prodigy scaling new heights. For Arjun Erigaisi, however, going past the 2800 rating points milestone was just an “added bonus” to winning the game for his club, Team Alkaloid, by defeating Dmitry Andreikin in the 5th round of the European Chess Club Cup. Arjun says that his mind was focussed on winning his battle with Andreikin and how that could sway the overall clash between the two clubs. “The satisfaction was there after winning. But that was because I won that game against a strong player, not because of reaching 2800. I did have an idea that if I won, I would cross 2800. But at that point, it wasn’t …

Explaining significance Arjun Erigaisi reaching 2800 rating mark

Explaining significance Arjun Erigaisi reaching 2800 rating mark

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Arjun Erigaisi finds himself breathing rarefied air. On Friday, he scaled Mount 2800 in the live ratings and put himself in contention to stay there when FIDE publishes its official ratings list at the end of this month. The current membership of the club stands at 14, with Anish Giri only having a temporary visitors’ pass to the club since he entered it in live ratings (which are updated in real time) but was out by the time the monthly ratings list was published by FIDE. Just how impressive Arjun Erigaisi’s feat is can be gauged by the immediate reactions to him touching 2800. “(Arjun is) Like a bullet gaining 60 points this year!” Viswanathan Anand exclaimed on X referring to Arjun’s rapid rise from being 2738 in January this year. We break down the significance of Arjun Erigaisi touching 2800 rating points: What is the big deal about reaching a 2800 rating? The 2800 rating club is an elusive club in chess. Only 16 men, including Arjun Erigaisi, have entered it. Only 14 have …

Arjun Erigaisi enters elusive 2800 club in live ratings, becomes only 2nd Indian after Vishy Anand to reach elusive club | Chess News

Arjun Erigaisi enters elusive 2800 club in live ratings, becomes only 2nd Indian after Vishy Anand to reach elusive club | Chess News

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Arjun Erigaisi made history late on Thursday by breaking into the elusive 2800 rating club in the live ratings at the European Chess Club Cup. In history, only 16 players in the world have touched Mount 2800 in the live ratings, which are updated in real time. Besides Arjun Erigaisi, there are currently three players who have a live rating over 2800: Magnus Carlsen (2831.0), Fabiano Caruana (2805.2) and Hikaru Nakamura (2802.0). Arjun Erigaisi, playing for his club, Team Alkaloid, defeated Dmitry Andreikin (2729) with the white pieces in the 5th round of the European Chess Club Cup, where plenty of Indians are in action including Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa. Arjun Erigaisi is now only the second Indian chess player to break the hallowed 2800 rating mark after five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand. In the coming days, world championship contender Gukesh could also break into the 2800 club. Gukesh is currently on 2785.8 but he had come within six points earlier this month, achieving his peak rating of 2794. Arjun Erigaisi was unbeaten at the Chess …

Gukesh on win spree 2 years after Chennai heartbreak

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Eyebrows shot up, heads were cocked and frowns made appearances as some of the world’s top players, including former and current world champions like Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and Ding Liren caught a glimpse of Gukesh’s battle against Azerbaijan’s Aydin Suleymanli, which the teenager from India ended up winning in 38 moves. There’s something about Gukesh and Olympiads. Two years back, at the Chess Olympiad hosted in his hometown of Chennai, a 16-year-old Gukesh had given one of the first indicators that he was going to be a problem for the rest of the world. Playing on the top board of the India B team at the Chess Olympiad in 2022, Gukesh (back then ranked World No 20) had gone on a rampage, smiting away at anyone who sat in front of him, even the world’s best players like Fabiano Caruana. But all of his work had been undone in a sense as he had lost against Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the 10th round, which meant that the team lost the tie. What had stung …