Viswanathan Anand predicts risk of all-India D Gukesh vs Arjun Erigaisi World Chess Championship face-off

Each Gukesh and Liren battled exhausting for supremacy because the match reached the decisive fourteenth recreation. Within the decider, it appeared like it could be a draw, with Liren attempting to pressure out a tie-breaker.

However a large blunder by the Chinese language grandmaster within the fifty fifth transfer noticed him resign and concede defeat to Gukesh. Regardless of his world championship title, Gukesh continues to be not the very best ranked Indian chess participant. Based on the rankings, Gukesh is at present ranked fifth on this planet and Arjun Erigaisi is fourth, which makes him the highest-ranked Indian chess participant.

So it wasn’t a shock that when Gukesh received in Singapore, followers started to hope for a potential title face-off with Erigaisi. Talking on an AMA (Ask Me Something) session on Reddit, India legend Viswanathan Anand weighed in on such a risk. “5-10 % probability it might probably occur,” he stated.

Erigaisi had an eventful 2024, which noticed him win the WR Chess Masters Cup, the Stepan Avagyan Memorial and the Menorca Open. He additionally received particular person gold on board three on the Chess Olympiad, bagging ten factors in 11 video games. A chess prodigy, he earned the grandmaster title on the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days. In September this yr, he turned India’s top-rated participant and in December, received his peak ranking of 2801 which additionally makes him the fifteenth-highest rated participant in historical past and second Indian to ever get previous 2800 after Anand.

If Erigaisi does find yourself difficult Gukesh for the world championship title, it is going to be a deal with for chess followers.