Chess Tournament Results: Arjun Erigaisi and Vincent Keymer Win

• Arjun Erigaisi wins over American Awonder Liang in the Masters section of the Quantbox Chennai Grandmasters chess tournament.

• German Vincent Keymer wins over Indian Nihal Sarin, gaining an early advantage.

• Keymer takes the full point after Nihal resigns after the 51st move, despite having 20 minutes against zero.

• Vidit Gujrathi recovers from an inferior position to share honours with Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest.

• V. Pranav and Karthikeyan Murali battle ends in a stalemate after 44 moves.

• Anish Giri splits the point with American Ray Robson.

Challenges:

• M. Pranesh defeats Aryan Chopra and Leon Luke Mendonca beats G.B. Harshavardhan.

• Diptayan Ghosh scores over D. Harika when playing with black pieces.

Second round pairings:

• Masters: Karthikeyan vs. Liang, van Foreest vs. Arjun, Robson vs. Vidit, Nihal vs. Giri, Pranav vs. Keymer.

• Challengers: Harshavardhan vs. Aryan, Dipatyan vs. Pranesh, Iniyan vs. Harika, Adhiban vs. Vaishali, Mendonca vs. Abhimanyu.