Arjun Erigaisi to compete in Paris leg of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025

Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi will compete within the Paris leg of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in April, changing into the second participant from the nation after world champion D Gukesh to participate. The event was confirmed by Freestyle Chess on their official Instagram account.

“A brand new face for Freestyle Chess! Arjun Erigaisi has confirmed his participation for the Paris Grand Slam (8-15 April) #FreestyleChess #Weissenhaus,” Freestyle Chess mentioned on their Instagram deal with.

Arjun Erigaisi’s forgettable Tata Metal Chess outing 

Arjun, ranked World No 4, endured a disappointing outing within the recently-held Tata Metal Chess event in Wijk aan Zeee, Netherlands. He completed the event in tenth place out of 14 opponents within the Masters part, registering simply two wins, whereas drawing seven and dropping 4 different video games.

His wins got here towards
Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov and
fellow Indian GM D Gukesh in spherical 12 and spherical 13 of the event respectively.

Erigaisi later admitted that the Tata Metal Chess event was one of many hardest competitions in his life. “It was one of many hardest tournaments of my life up to now. There may be all the time studying to be taken away from tournaments. Particularly in such tournaments like there are lots of (learnings to be taken away). However the ones that I can reveal is that I used to be enjoying a bit too aggressively and taking an excessive amount of dangers,” he advised the Indian Specific.

D Gukesh, who defeated Ding Liren to win the World Chess Championship title in December, endured a disappointing outing within the Weissenhaus leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. {The teenager} misplaced to eventual runner-up Fabiano Caruana within the quarter-finals in Germany and
not a single win all through the event meant that Gukesh completed in eighth place (4 factors) of the 10-player standings.

The Paris leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour shall be adopted by three extra legs in New York (17-24 July), New Delhi (17-24 September) and Cape City (5-12 December).