Arjun Erigaisi regains 4th spot in newest FIDE rankings; Aravindh Chithambaram attains career-best rank after Prague triumph

Arjun Erigaisi inched nearer to compatriot D Gukesh within the newest FIDE rankings checklist on Tuesday whereas
Aravindh Chithambaram attained his career-best after his
triumph within the Prague Chess Masters. Indian Grandmasters Arjun and Aravindh had been among the many gainers newest FIDE rankings; whereas the previous regained the fourth spot with 5 ranking factors, Aravindh made a significant leap by gathering 18 factors.

5-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, in the meantime, continues to steer the checklist, having first moved to the highest of the rankings in 2010 and remained the top-ranked participant since 2011. The Norwegian chess icon’s ranking at present stands at 2,837 after gaining 4 ranking factors. Hikaru Nakamura stays on the second spot with a ranking of two,804 after gaining a few factors.

Gukesh stays the highest-ranked Indian on the third spot for now with a ranking of two,787, and is adopted intently by Arjun at 2,782. American GM Fabiano Caruana (2,776), in the meantime, slipped to the fifth spot after dropping seven ranking factors.

R Praggnanandhaa is the one different Indian within the top-10, at present occupying the seventh place with a ranking of two,758. Like Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa’s ranking has remained static.

Aravindh takes a large stride after the most important victory over his profession

Aravindh had pulled off the most important feat of his profession earlier this month by clinching the Prague Masters on the ultimate day of the occasion with a draw in opposition to Turkey’s Gurel Ediz.

The 25-year-old completed with a complete of six factors out of a potential 9 on the finish of the Masters Part whereas Praggnanandhaa completed joint-second together with Dutch GM Anish Giri and Chinese language GM Wei Yi.

Had Praggnanandhaa not misplaced to Giri within the closing spherical, he might need pressured the Masters occasion to enter tie-breaks, the place he would have had a strong shot at gathering one other main title after profitable the Tata Metal Chess match in Netherlands.

Humpy stays solely Indian in girls’s top-10

As for the ladies’s rankings, GM Koneru Humpy – who had
lately been topped girls’s world speedy champion for a second time – stays the one Indian among the many top-10.

Humpy occupies the sixth spot with a ranking of two.528, whereas the highest 4 spots are occupied by Chinese language gamers, led by Hou Yifan (2,633) and Wenjun Ju (2,561). Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina completes the top-five with a ranking of two,544.

GMs Harika Dronavalli (2,488) and R Vaishali (2,484) are the following highest-rated Indians within the up to date rankings, occupying the fifteenth and the sixteenth spots whereas IM Divya Deshmukh (2,460) sits on the twentieth spot.