National Champion Arjun Erigaisi began the tournament campaign in style beating Manigandan S S. at the start of the 19th Delhi International Grandmasters Chess tournament
5-times Commonwealth Champion and defending champion of 2020, Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta made a winning start at the expense of Women International Master Angela Franco Valencia of Colombia while fresh from his title triumph at Guwahati Open, second seed Pavel Ponkratov started event on winning note against Bala Kannamma.
Grandmaster Cristhian Camilo Rios of Colombia was held to a draw by FIDE Master Muhammed Shuaau of Maldives on a day when most of the top seeds sailed through in the opener over their lesser known rivals. Rios found the going tough in the early phase itself and Shuaau was able to pull off a half point without much ado.
Delhi’s 14 year old Shivika Rohilla came up with an inspired effort to beat Grandmaster RR Laxman in the first round of the 19th Delhi International Grandmasters Chess tournament that got under way here. Shivika was at her best in probably her best performance in the career as she matched the Grandmaster move for move for a long time. Laxman enjoyed the advantage throughout the game with his white pieces but Shivika was quick to pounce on an opportunity that netted her a fine game. The result was never in doubt thereafter.
Earlier in the day the event was formally inaugurated by Dr Sanjay Kapoor, President All India Chess Federation and Shri Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hony Secretary of AICF and President of Delhi Chess Association meanwhile announced that the next event will be held for 1.25 Crores as prize fund.
Important Result Round -1 (Indians otherwise stated) :- Manigandan SS (0) lost to GM Arjun Erigaisi (1); GM Pavel Ponkartov of Russia (1) beat Bala Kannamma (0); WIM Angela Franco Valencia of Colombia (0) lost to GM Abhijeet Gupta (1); GM Neuris Delgado Ramirez of Paraguay (1) beat Soham Datar (0); FM Joydeep Dutta (0) lost to GM Sethuraman S P (1); GM Gukesh D (1) beat Sudarshan Bhat (0); CM Dhruv Khosla (0) lost to GM Lalith Babu M R (1); GM Visakh N R (1) beat CM Akila Kavinda of Sri Lanka (0); Santu Mondal (0) lost to GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (1); GM Iniyan P (1) beat Indrajeet Mahindrakar (0); Sri Sai Baswanth P (0) lost to GM Masoud Modadeghpour of Iran (1); GM Mitrabha Guha (1) beat FM Purushothaman T (0); Hemanth Raam (0) lost to GM Arjun Kalyan (1); GM Harsha Bharathakoti (1) beat Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma (0); FM Sidhant Gaikwad (0) lost to GM Adham Fawzy of Egypt; GM Karthik Venkatraman (1) beat Vedant Nagarkatte (1); IM Romesh Weerawardane of Sri Lanka (0) lost to IM Raahul VS (1); GM Azer Mirzoev of Azerbaijan (1) beat Soham Bhattacharya (0); Joel Paul Ganta (0) lost to IM Arash Tahbaz of Iran (1).
| Manigandan S S | 2127 | 0 – 1 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | 2660 | |
| GM | Ponkratov Pavel | 2641 | 1 – 0 | Bala Kannamma P | 2120 | |
| WIM | Franco Valencia Angela | 2116 | 0 – 1 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | 2628 |
| GM | Delgado Ramirez Neuris | 2622 | 1 – 0 | Soham Datar | 2115 | |
| FM | Dutta Joydeep | 2101 | 0 – 1 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | 2619 |
| GM | Gukesh D | 2614 | 1 – 0 | Sudarshan Bhat | 2100 | |
| CM | Dhruv Khosla | 2072 | 0 – 1 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | 2558 |
| GM | Visakh N R | 2522 | 1 – 0 | CM | Kavinda Akila | 2068 |
| Santu Mondal | 2063 | 0 – 1 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | 2520 | |
| GM | Iniyan P | 2516 | 1 – 0 | Mahindrakar Indrajeet | 2059 | |
| Sri Sai Baswanth P | 2057 | 0 – 1 | GM | Mosadeghpour Masoud | 2511 | |
| GM | Mitrabha Guha | 2510 | 1 – 0 | FM | Purushothaman Thirumalai | 2055 |
| Hemanth Raam | 2026 | 0 – 1 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | 2506 | |
| GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | 2499 | 1 – 0 | Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U | 2022 | |
| FM | Gaikwad Siddhant | 2016 | 0 – 1 | GM | Fawzy Adham | 2490 |
| GM | Karthik Venkataraman | 2485 | 1 – 0 | AIM | Nagarkatte Vedant | 2013 |
| IM | Weerawardane Romesh | 2005 | 0 – 1 | IM | Raahul V S | 2478 |
| GM | Mirzoev Azer | 2476 | 1 – 0 | Bhattacharyya Soham | 2004 | |
| Joel Paul Ganta | 2004 | 0 – 1 | IM | Tahbaz Arash | 2469 | |
| IM | Krishna C R G | 2466 | 1 – 0 | Ilamparthi A R | 1993 | |
| Borgaonkar Akshay | 1985 | 0 – 1 | IM | Das Sayantan | 2459 | |
| GM | Rios Cristhian Camilo | 2449 | ½ – ½ | FM | Muhammed Shuaau | 1969 |
| Ashutosh Kumar | 1964 | 0 – 1 | IM | Neelash Saha | 2445 | |
| IM | Nigmatov Ortik | 2445 | 1 – 0 | AFM | Pawar Harshit | 1921 |
| Ayan Pal | 1913 | 0 – 1 | IM | Vignesh N R | 2444 | |
| IM | Shyaamnikhil P | 2442 | 1 – 0 | Ambesh | 1909 | |
| Choudhary Jitendra Kumar | 1899 | 0 – 1 | IM | Abdisalimov Abdimalik | 2435 | |
| GM | Laxman R.R. | 2429 | 0 – 1 | Shivika Rohilla | 1898 | |
| AIM | Bhavik Ahuja | 1879 | 0 – 1 | IM | Nitin S. | 2427 |
| Gholami Orimi Mahdi | 2420 | 1 – 0 | Ghosh Samriddhaa | 1877 | ||
| Velpula Sarayu | 1875 | 0 – 1 | IM | Gusain Himal | 2408 | |
| GM | Saptarshi Roy | 2402 | 1 – 0 | Garv Rai | 1869 | |
| Chaitanya Sairam Mogili | 1867 | 0 – 1 | IM | Harshavardhan G B | 2402 | |
| IM | Shahil Dey | 2400 | 1 – 0 | WFM | Baghirova Khatun | 1855 |
| Shaik Sumer Arsh | 1852 | ½ – ½ | IM | Srihari L R | 2400 | |
| GM | Karthikeyan P. | 2397 | 1 – 0 | Divitt Arora | 1850 | |
| Ghimire Arjun | 1838 | ½ – ½ | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | 2397 | |
| IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | 2359 | 1 – 0 | Ishvi Aggarwal | 1833 | |
| Singh Neha | 1833 | 0 – 1 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | 2350 | |
| IM | Padmini Rout | 2350 | 1 – 0 | Saypuri Srithan | 1824 | |
| AIM | Abhay Bandewar | 1804 | 0 – 1 | FM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | 2340 |
| Utsab Chatterjee | 2324 | 1 – 0 | Adireddy Arjun | 1796 | ||
| AGM | Sahib Singh | 1792 | 0 – 1 | IM | Ratnakaran K. | 2316 |
| IM | Sai Agni Jeevitesh J | 2316 | 1 – 0 | Kolomwe Willian | 1783 | |
| Aashman Gupta | 1781 | 0 – 1 | Dhananjay S | 2310 | ||
| FM | Rohith Krishna S | 2304 | 1 – 0 | Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta | 1777 | |
| Karki Rajiv | 1776 | 0 – 1 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2301 | |
| IM | Palit Somak | 2300 | 1 – 0 | Rounaiv Rana | 1772 | |
| Krishnan Ritvik | 1761 | 1 – 0 | IM | Sangma Rahul | 2286 | |
| IM | Sharma Dinesh K. | 2283 | 1 – 0 | AIM | Mandloi Mukesh | 1749 |
| Aman Sharma | 1749 | 0 – 1 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | 2277 | |
| Rohit S | 2276 | 1 – 0 | Parekh Vishrut | 1747 | ||
| Jani Kushal R | 1746 | ½ – ½ | Saurabh Anand | 2276 | ||
| Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri | 2263 | 1 – 0 | Roneet Das | 1720 | ||
| Jaiveer Mahendru | 1715 | 0 – 1 | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | 2260 | |
| Anadkat Kartavya | 2241 | ½ – ½ | Shreyas Seshadri Nallore | 1696 | ||
| Hriday Panchal | 1691 | ½ – ½ | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | 2236 | |
| FM | Aradhya Garg | 2236 | ½ – ½ | Makwana Devam | 1684 | |
| Jihan Tejas Shah | 1682 | ½ – ½ | FM | Phadke Sohan | 2233 | |
| FM | Poormosavi Seyed Kian | 2229 | 1 – 0 | Parmod Kumar | 1676 | |
| Swayham P Das | 1675 | 1 – 0 | WIM | Parnali S Dharia | 2224 | |
| FM | De Silva L M S T | 2220 | 1 – 0 | Bhagwat Heramb | 1673 | |
| Madduri Satya Tejeswar | 1672 | 0 – 1 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | 2219 | |
| WIM | Priyanka K | 2215 | 1 – 0 | Falgun D Purohit | 1669 | |
| WFM | Chaitanya V. | 1668 | 1 – 0 | WGM | Varshini V | 2206 |
| WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | 2205 | 1 – 0 | Farooq Noor | 1666 | |
| Devansh Singh | 1665 | 0 – 1 | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | 2198 | ||
| WIM | Michelle Catherina P | 2176 | 1 – 0 | Anubhab Gupta | 1642 | |
| Buxy Rajanikant | 1639 | ½ – ½ | CM | Daakshin Arun | 2173 | |
| Kulkarni Vinayak | 2170 | 1 – 0 | Sree Veeramani P | 1639 | ||
| Ruturaj Rushikesh Dhotre | 1625 | 0 – 1 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | 2162 | |
| IM | Praveen Kumar C | 2158 | 1 – 0 | Shubh Kapur | 1617 | |
| Vishvajeet Singh | 1611 | 0 – 1 | CM | Singh Ojasva | 2141 | |
| FM | Ram Aravind L N | 2127 | 1 – 0 | Singh Myra | 1606 | |
| Vivaan Chawla | 1217 | 0 – 1 | Aritrya Pal | 1590 | ||
| Singh Ambesh Pratap | 1584 | 1 – 0 | Aryan Sista | 1210 | ||
| Satyaki G Gokul | 1210 | ½ – ½ | Shrestha Nishant | 1576 | ||
| Jatinder Kapoor | 1573 | 1 – 0 | Sherali Pattnaik | 1209 | ||
| Srinivas Asapu | 1192 | 0 – 1 | Arshpreet Singh | 1570 | ||
| Sathvik Adiga | 1562 | 1 – 0 | ACM | Dhotre Samihan | 1166 | |
| AIM | Sagar Bansal | 1161 | 1 – 0 | Jayant Chauhan | 1558 | |
| Cera Dagaria | 1557 | 0 – 1 | Irondla Akash Kumar | 1159 | ||
| Khan H K | 1154 | 0 – 1 | Sadbhav Rautela | 1552 | ||
| Lanka Sri Karthikeya Durgaprasad | 1528 | 1 – 0 | Jaganath C | 1150 | ||
| Durga Karthika Lellapalli | 1149 | 0 – 1 | Rachishnu Datta | 1526 | ||
| Dhruva Thota | 1525 | 1 – 0 | Rajkumar D | 1146 | ||
| Sadavarte Atharv | 1143 | 0 – 1 | Akshat Negi | 1523 | ||
| Arnav Dhamija | 1516 | 1 – 0 | Shrey Jain | 1134 | ||
| Aadhya Jain | 1128 | 0 – 1 | Roy Aanya | 1502 | ||
| Rajanya Datta | 1501 | 1 – 0 | Debaryo Basu | 1128 | ||
| Parth Belwal | 1100 | 1 – 0 | Varshita Jain | 1491 | ||
| Sherla Prathamesh | 1484 | 1 – 0 | Harshit Jaggi | 1099 | ||
| Abhishek Shankar | 1095 | ½ – ½ | AIM | Sushrutha Reddy | 1483 | |
| Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar | 1476 | 1 – 0 | Saini Bhavya | 1081 | ||
| Mahir Taneja | 1074 | 0 – 1 | Vatsal Makol | 1471 | ||
| Aarav Sinha | 1470 | 1 – 0 | Ishant Singh | 1073 | ||
| Swasti Jha | 1068 | 0 – 1 | Midilesh Ms | 1470 | ||
| Rakshit Batra | 1464 | 1 – 0 | AFM | Hiya Garg | 1062 | |
| Dhruv Singh Bisht | 1059 | 1 – 0 | Azal Nasir | 1459 | ||
| Vakcheri Mohitha | 1459 | 1 – 0 | Sambhav Setiya | 1022 | ||
| Siddhant Chaturvedi | 1020 | 0 – 1 | Thirunarayanan Sampath Kumar | 1458 | ||
| Darshan Sasthaa M | 1457 | 1 – 0 | Bimansa D G Jayandi | 1012 | ||
| Ahaan Alsisaria | 1011 | 0 – 1 | Praveen K B | 1456 | ||
| Jain Kushagra | 1452 | 1 – 0 | Darsh Ilwadi | 1003 | ||
| Mishka Mathur | 1002 | 0 – 1 | Abhinav Chauhan | 1438 | ||
| Dhami Dipak | 1436 | 0 – 1 | ACM | Shashank Pali | 0 | |
| ACM | Vemula Pradyumna Lakshmi | 0 | 0 – 1 | AFM | Shubhi Gupta | 1434 |
| Padmaesh M K | 1430 | 1 – 0 | Abhibhav Kumar | 0 | ||
| Abhiraj Ratna | 0 | 0 – 1 | Anshul Mehta | 1420 | ||
| Gunawardhana Devindya Oshini | 1418 | 1 – 0 | Abhishek Bharadwaj | 0 | ||
| Adhiraaj Sejwal | 0 | 0 – 1 | Ujaan Bhattacharya | 1416 | ||
| Gyaneshwar B | 1404 | 1 – 0 | Advaitt Srikant Koduri | 0 | ||
| Advik Srinivasan | 0 | 0 – 1 | Khuanna Kapoor | 1404 | ||
| Vinayak Agarwal | 1404 | 1 – 0 | Akshaj Gupta | 0 | ||
| Andalamala Hemal Varshan | 0 | 0 – 1 | Jeyanth R | 1403 | ||
| Amarathunga Kosala Sandeepa Chamikara | 1401 | 1 – 0 | Aniket Mohan | 0 | ||
| Arav Arora | 0 | 0 – 1 | Rout Yashita | 1392 | ||
| Dinesh Kumar Gupta | 1383 | 1 – 0 | Arsh Kashyap | 0 | ||
| Atharv Verma | 0 | 0 – 1 | Shivam Yadav | 1377 | ||
| Prathamesh Santosh Gawade | 1371 | 0 – 1 | Auzair Kantroo | 0 | ||
| Avanish Bahadur | 0 | 1 – 0 | Sanath K Jamadagni | 1364 | ||
| Vaibhav Gautam | 1358 | 1 – 0 | Bansal Reyansh | 0 | ||
| Dayal Samar | 0 | 0 – 1 | Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy | 1356 | ||
| AFM | Sureka Akshat | 1342 | 1 – 0 | Goddeti Penchala Narasimhareddy | 0 | |
| Hardeep Kumar | 0 | 0 – 1 | Prakaash S A Krishna | 1342 | ||
| Kian Dishank Shah | 1339 | 1 – 0 | Hriday Garg | 0 | ||
| Ishaan Vishnumangalam Narayanaswany | 0 | 0 – 1 | Darsh Shetty | 1336 | ||
| Ramadugu Akshay | 1330 | 1 – 0 | Ishat Sarin | 0 | ||
| Jaanvi Tejiny Andalamala | 0 | 0 – 1 | AFM | Bir Singh Raminder | 1328 | |
| Jain Hitansh | 1321 | 1 – 0 | Jalluri Bhargav | 0 | ||
| Kannangara Ginuri | 0 | 0 – 1 | Mayukh Majumder | 1320 | ||
| Arpit Kumar | 1314 | ½ – ½ | Kannangara Ranul Insitha | 0 | ||
| Manish Batta | 0 | 0 – 1 | AIM | Sikkam Sai Vishnu | 1299 | |
| Shawn Pravin | 1296 | 1 – 0 | Mehul Sondhi | 0 | ||
| Muthyala Gurunadham | 0 | 0 – 1 | Vandan Alankar Sawai | 1289 | ||
| Tarun N | 1285 | 0 – 1 | Pranav Rai | 0 | ||
| Rishabh Pradhan | 0 | 0 – 1 | Oishik Kundu | 1272 | ||
| AFM | Avya Maini | 1267 | 1 – 0 | Rohit Kathuria | 0 | |
| Sethi Siddharth | 0 | ½ – ½ | AFM | Vihaan Dumir | 1263 | |
| Yuvika Sehgal | 1263 | 1 – 0 | Shabadjot Singh | 0 | ||
| Shashwat Singh | 0 | 0 – 1 | Dissanayake D M Madushan Sameera | 1261 | ||
| Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar | 1254 | ½ – ½ | Shaurya Chaudhry | 0 | ||
| Shivoham Chatterjee | 0 | 0 – 1 | Kavish Aryan Lanka | 1253 | ||
| Shreya Rana | 1242 | 1 – 0 | Shreyansh Alsisaria | 0 | ||
| Sumit Kumar | 0 | 0 – 1 | Vihaan Chowdhary N | 1233 | ||
| Abeyrathne K W A M G Dinod Uthsanda | 1225 | 1 – 0 | Tanish Chaurasia | 0 | ||
| Tizya Kumar | 0 | 0 – 1 | Anubhav Rawat | 1220 | ||
| Astha Rastogi | 1220 | 1 – 0 | Udit Sharma | 0 | ||
| Wadduwage Thamindu Upeksha | 0 | 0 – 1 | AFM | Aadya Gupta | 1218 |
