Chennai Grand Masters 2024: Perfect Pranav Racks Up Fourth Straight Win in Challengers

Pranav V prolonged his perfect start to Chennai Grand Masters 2024 by registering his fourth win in as many games against Vaishali R on Friday in Chennai. Meanwhile, World . 2 Arjun Erigaisi beat Amin Tabatabaei in a clash of leers to go top of Masters’ standings.

by MGD1 and sponsored by Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nu, Chennai Grand Masters 2024 features two categories–Masters & Challengers. With a rating aver of 2729, Masters presents a more competitive field this time around. debuting Challengers, meanwhile, is designed to provide emerging Indian talent chance to compete in a top-class tournament.

Coming into match on back of a perfect start, Pranav sacrificed his Queen early, taking away Vaishali’s corresponding piece in a bold play. With field levelled, pair exchanged heavy blows across board before Pranav, playing with black pieces, forced his opponent into a corner and claimed win.

In Masters category, Arjun continued his unbeaten run in tournament by defeating Tabatabaei in a battle of table-toppers; recently-crowned World . 2 has accumulated 3.5 points after four rounds and w stands alone on top of charts. Furrmore, Vidit Gujrathi and Aravindh Chithambaram held Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Levon Aronian, respectively, to stalemates, while Parham Maghsoodloo and Alexey Sarana, too, played out a draw.

Elsewhere in Challengers category, Leon Mendonca and Abhimanyu Puranik fought to a balanced draw, while Karthikeyan Murali secured a strong win over Harika Dronavalli, showcasing his skill in a competitive game. Raunak Shwani and Pranesh M also concluded ir match with a well-contested draw but lost ground on runaway leer Pranav as a consequence.

Chennai Grand Masters 2024 is taking place at Anna Centenary Library in Chennai from vember 5 to 11, 2024, with tickets available for general audience on BookMyShow for INR 100. ditionally, tournament can be streamed online on ChessBase India’s YouTube channel.