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Arjun Erigaisi and Vidit Gujrathi battle to hard fought draw as Indian derby ends in stalemate

Arjun Erigaisi and Vidit Gujrathi battle to hard fought draw as Indian derby ends in stalemate

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5 min readNew DelhiJun 10, 2026 11:29 PM IST The fourth round of the UzChess Cup 2026 Masters event saw two Indians pitted against each other. Barring their nationality, there was nothing in particular that resembled how their tournaments had gone. On one side was Arjun Erigaisi, jointly leading the event with a couple of draws and a win sandwiched in between. On the other side was Vidit Gujrathi, languishing at the bottom after endured a terrible start to his campaign as he lost his opening two games before gaining his first half point, which came in a draw against Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Having played multiple team events like the Olympiad and the Asian Games together in a tightly knit squad, both players are fairly familiar with each other. They know their strengths, weaknesses, tricks and perhaps even each other’s mindset to some extent. So when they faced each other for the umpteenth time in Tashkent on Wednesday, one could expect a battle of attrition with both fighting for the full point. It was indeed a …

Cold start for Indians as Vidit suffers loss, Arjun held to draw

Cold start for Indians as Vidit suffers loss, Arjun held to draw

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3 min readNew DelhiJun 7, 2026 11:42 PM IST A cold day awaited the Indian players in Tashkent during the opening round of the 2026 Uzchess Masters. The highest-ranked Indian, Arjun Erigaisi, was held to a draw by the considerably lower-rated Shamsiddin Vokhidov, while the other Indian in the fray, Vidit Gujrathi, suffered a heavy blow at the hands of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov on Sunday. The Azerbaijani veteran Mamedyarov snatched the full point from the experienced Indian. He risked steering the game into an extremely complex middlegame, a gamble that worked perfectly in his favour. Mamedyarov induced errors from Vidit to gain an extra pawn in the rook endgame. Yet the position remained double-edged, where one misstep could render the extra pawn meaningless. Vidit fought valiantly for most of the endgame before a single lapse in judgment cost him the game. He failed to build a pawn fortress and eventually folded in 67 moves, after battling for over five hours. In the Arjun vs. Vokhidov clash, the 124-point Elo gap proved less decisive. In the Caro-Kann …

Nihal Sarin wins Tashkent Open, pockets ,000 prize money | Chess News

Nihal Sarin wins Tashkent Open, pockets $20,000 prize money | Chess News

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Long considered a player who is more adept at faster time controls than classical chess, India’s Nihal Sarin won the classical Tashkent Open Agzamov Memorial 2025 with a draw with black pieces against Uzbekistan’s Shamsiddin Vokhidov in the final round on Saturday. Thanks to the victory, Nihal will return from Uzbekistan’s capital with a cool $20,000 (approx Rs 17 lakh) in his pocket and 7.1 rating points in his credit. The 20-year-old from Thrissur is rated 2694 in the live ratings, which takes him within touching distance of the 2700-rating peak after his performance in Tashkent. A member of India’s golden generation of teenage prodigies, in recent years, Nihal has been falling behind contemporaries like Gukesh, who became the youngest world champion in the history of the sport, and players like Arjun Erigaisi and Praggnanandhaa, at least in the classical format. Nihal was a prominent absentee in India’s all-star Chess Olympiad that returned from Budapest last year after winning the team gold, besides twin individual golds for Gukesh and Arjun. “I was not hurt at …