Grandmaster, National Champion and someone who is training his sights to battle with the best – Arjun Erigaise starts as the top seed and hot favorite for the crown in the 19th edition of the Delhi International open chess tournament 2022 that kickstarts at the Tivoli Garden resorts here. Defending champion of 2020, Grandmaster and five times Commonwealth Champion, Abhijeet Gupta is also back in the fray and starts as the third seed behind Pavel Ponkratov, who has just won Guwahati Open
The event will be played over ten rounds and approximately 300 players have already registered for the event. This includes players from 12 countries apart from India and a total of 21 Grandmasters, 3 Women Grandmasters 26 International Masters and 6 Women International Masters.
“The past two years have not been the kind for off line chess tournaments but suddenly we have a flurry of International events now”, said Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary All India Chess Federation. This is the second event in a row after the Guwahati International that ended on Sunday. After this event the caravan will move to Ahmedabad for the final instalment of triple GM International events in India.
India has also won the bid for the Chess Olympiad 2022 to be played later this year at Chennai. These plus three other International events in May-June will be some sort of curtain raiser for the biggest chess spectacle that comes to India for the first time.
| 1 | GM | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2660 |
| 2 | GM | Ponkratov Pavel | RUS | 2641 |
| 3 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2628 |
| 4 | GM | Delgado Ramirez Neuris | PAR | 2622 |
| 5 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2619 |
| 6 | GM | Gukesh D | IND | 2614 |
| 7 | GM | Lalith Babu M R | IND | 2558 |
| 8 | GM | Visakh N R | IND | 2522 |
| 9 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2520 |
| 10 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2516 |
| 11 | GM | Mosadeghpour Masoud | IRI | 2511 |
| 12 | GM | Mitrabha Guha | IND | 2510 |
| 13 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2506 |
| 14 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2499 |
| 15 | GM | Fawzy Adham | EGY | 2490 |
| 16 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2485 |
| 17 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2478 |
| 18 | GM | Mirzoev Azer | AZE | 2476 |
| 19 | IM | Tahbaz Arash | IRI | 2469 |
| 20 | IM | Krishna C R G | IND | 2466 |
| 21 | IM | Das Sayantan | IND | 2459 |
| 22 | GM | Rios Cristhian Camilo | COL | 2449 |
| 23 | IM | Neelash Saha | IND | 2445 |
| 24 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | UZB | 2445 |
| 25 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2444 |
| 26 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2442 |
| 27 | IM | Abdisalimov Abdimalik | UZB | 2435 |
| 28 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2429 |
| 29 | IM | Nitin S. | IND | 2427 |
| 30 | Gholami Orimi Mahdi | IRI | 2420 | |
| 31 | IM | Gusain Himal | IND | 2408 |
| 32 | GM | Saptarshi Roy | IND | 2402 |
| 33 | IM | Harshavardhan G B | IND | 2402 |
| 34 | IM | Shahil Dey | IND | 2400 |
| 35 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2400 |
| 36 | GM | Karthikeyan P. | IND | 2397 |
| 37 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2397 |
| 38 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | IND | 2359 |
| 39 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | IND | 2350 |
| 40 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2350 |
| 41 | FM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2340 |
| 42 | Utsab Chatterjee | IND | 2324 | |
| 43 | IM | Ratnakaran K. | IND | 2316 |
| 44 | IM | Sai Agni Jeevitesh J | IND | 2316 |
| 45 | Dhananjay S | IND | 2310 | |
| 46 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2304 |
| 47 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2301 |
| 48 | IM | Palit Somak | IND | 2300 |
| 49 | IM | Sangma Rahul | IND | 2286 |
| 50 | IM | Sharma Dinesh K. | IND | 2283 |
| 51 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | IND | 2277 |
| 52 | Rohit S | IND | 2276 | |
| 53 | Saurabh Anand | IND | 2276 | |
| 54 | Bharat Kumar Reddy Poluri | IND | 2263 | |
| 55 | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | IND | 2260 |
| 56 | Anadkat Kartavya | IND | 2241 | |
| 57 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2236 |
| 58 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2236 |
| 59 | FM | Phadke Sohan | IND | 2233 |
| 60 | FM | Poormosavi Seyed Kian | IRI | 2229 |
| 61 | WIM | Parnali S Dharia | IND | 2224 |
| 62 | FM | De Silva L M S T | SRI | 2220 |
| 63 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | IND | 2219 |
| 64 | WIM | Priyanka K | IND | 2215 |
| 65 | WGM | Varshini V | IND | 2206 |
| 66 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | IND | 2205 |
| 67 | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | IND | 2198 | |
| 68 | WIM | Michelle Catherina P | IND | 2176 |
| 69 | CM | Daakshin Arun | IND | 2173 |
| 70 | Kulkarni Vinayak | IND | 2170 | |
| 71 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2162 |
| 72 | IM | Praveen Kumar C | IND | 2158 |
| 73 | CM | Singh Ojasva | IND | 2141 |
| 74 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2127 |
| 75 | Manigandan S S | IND | 2127 | |
| 76 | Bala Kannamma P | IND | 2120 | |
| 77 | WIM | Franco Valencia Angela | COL | 2116 |
| 78 | Soham Datar | IND | 2115 | |
| 79 | FM | Dutta Joydeep | IND | 2101 |
| 80 | Sudarshan Bhat | IND | 2100 | |
| 81 | CM | Dhruv Khosla | IND | 2072 |
| 82 | CM | Kavinda Akila | SRI | 2068 |
| 83 | Santu Mondal | IND | 2063 | |
| 84 | Mahindrakar Indrajeet | IND | 2059 | |
| 85 | Sri Sai Baswanth P | IND | 2057 | |
| 86 | FM | Purushothaman Thirumalai | IND | 2055 |
| 87 | Hemanth Raam | IND | 2026 | |
| 88 | Shiva Pavan Teja Sharma U | IND | 2022 | |
| 89 | FM | Gaikwad Siddhant | IND | 2016 |
| 90 | AIM | Nagarkatte Vedant | IND | 2013 |
| 91 | IM | Weerawardane Romesh | SRI | 2005 |
| 92 | Bhattacharyya Soham | IND | 2004 | |
| 93 | Joel Paul Ganta | IND | 2004 | |
| 94 | Ilamparthi A R | IND | 1993 | |
| 95 | Borgaonkar Akshay | IND | 1985 | |
| 96 | FM | Muhammed Shuaau | MDV | 1969 |
| 97 | Ashutosh Kumar | IND | 1964 | |
| 98 | AFM | Pawar Harshit | IND | 1921 |
| 99 | Ayan Pal | IND | 1913 | |
| 100 | Ambesh | IND | 1909 | |
| 101 | Choudhary Jitendra Kumar | IND | 1899 | |
| 102 | Shivika Rohilla | IND | 1898 | |
| 103 | AIM | Bhavik Ahuja | IND | 1879 |
| 104 | Ghosh Samriddhaa | IND | 1877 | |
| 105 | Velpula Sarayu | IND | 1875 | |
| 106 | Garv Rai | IND | 1869 | |
| 107 | Chaitanya Sairam Mogili | IND | 1867 | |
| 108 | WFM | Baghirova Khatun | AZE | 1855 |
| 109 | Shaik Sumer Arsh | IND | 1852 | |
| 110 | Divitt Arora | IND | 1850 | |
| 111 | Ghimire Arjun | NEP | 1838 | |
| 112 | Ishvi Aggarwal | IND | 1833 | |
| 113 | Singh Neha | IND | 1833 | |
| 114 | Saypuri Srithan | IND | 1824 | |
| 115 | AIM | Abhay Bandewar | IND | 1804 |
| 116 | Adireddy Arjun | IND | 1796 | |
| 117 | AGM | Sahib Singh | IND | 1792 |
| 118 | Kolomwe Willian | ZAM | 1783 | |
| 119 | Aashman Gupta | IND | 1781 | |
| 120 | Lakshyesh Mohan Gupta | IND | 1777 | |
| 121 | Karki Rajiv | NEP | 1776 | |
| 122 | Rounaiv Rana | IND | 1772 | |
| 123 | Krishnan Ritvik | IND | 1761 | |
| 124 | AIM | Mandloi Mukesh | IND | 1749 |
| 125 | Aman Sharma | IND | 1749 | |
| 126 | Parekh Vishrut | IND | 1747 | |
| 127 | Jani Kushal R | IND | 1746 | |
| 128 | Roneet Das | IND | 1720 | |
| 129 | Jaiveer Mahendru | IND | 1715 | |
| 130 | Shreyas Seshadri Nallore | IND | 1696 | |
| 131 | Hriday Panchal | IND | 1691 | |
| 132 | Makwana Devam | IND | 1684 | |
| 133 | Jihan Tejas Shah | IND | 1682 | |
| 134 | Parmod Kumar | IND | 1676 | |
| 135 | Swayham P Das | IND | 1675 | |
| 136 | Bhagwat Heramb | IND | 1673 | |
| 137 | Madduri Satya Tejeswar | IND | 1672 | |
| 138 | Falgun D Purohit | IND | 1669 | |
| 139 | WFM | Chaitanya V. | IND | 1668 |
| 140 | Farooq Noor | MDV | 1666 | |
| 141 | Devansh Singh | IND | 1665 | |
| 142 | Anubhab Gupta | IND | 1642 | |
| 143 | Buxy Rajanikant | IND | 1639 | |
| 144 | Sree Veeramani P | IND | 1639 | |
| 145 | Ruturaj Rushikesh Dhotre | IND | 1625 | |
| 146 | Shubh Kapur | IND | 1617 | |
| 147 | Vishvajeet Singh | IND | 1611 | |
| 148 | Singh Myra | IND | 1606 | |
| 149 | Aritrya Pal | IND | 1590 | |
| 150 | Singh Ambesh Pratap | IND | 1584 | |
| 151 | Shrestha Nishant | NEP | 1576 | |
| 152 | Jatinder Kapoor | IND | 1573 | |
| 153 | Arshpreet Singh | IND | 1570 | |
| 154 | Sathvik Adiga | IND | 1562 | |
| 155 | Jayant Chauhan | IND | 1558 | |
| 156 | Cera Dagaria | IND | 1557 | |
| 157 | Sadbhav Rautela | IND | 1552 | |
| 158 | Lanka Sri Karthikeya Durgaprasad | IND | 1528 | |
| 159 | Rachishnu Datta | IND | 1526 | |
| 160 | Dhruva Thota | IND | 1525 | |
| 161 | Akshat Negi | IND | 1523 | |
| 162 | Arnav Dhamija | IND | 1516 | |
| 163 | Roy Aanya | IND | 1502 | |
| 164 | Rajanya Datta | IND | 1501 | |
| 165 | Varshita Jain | IND | 1491 | |
| 166 | Sherla Prathamesh | IND | 1484 | |
| 167 | AIM | Sushrutha Reddy | IND | 1483 |
| 168 | Rajveer Pinkesh Nahar | IND | 1476 | |
| 169 | Vatsal Makol | IND | 1471 | |
| 170 | Aarav Sinha | IND | 1470 | |
| 171 | Midilesh Ms | IND | 1470 | |
| 172 | Rakshit Batra | IND | 1464 | |
| 173 | Azal Nasir | IND | 1459 | |
| 174 | Vakcheri Mohitha | IND | 1459 | |
| 175 | Thirunarayanan Sampath Kumar | IND | 1458 | |
| 176 | Darshan Sasthaa M | IND | 1457 | |
| 177 | Praveen K B | IND | 1456 | |
| 178 | Jain Kushagra | IND | 1452 | |
| 179 | Abhinav Chauhan | IND | 1438 | |
| 180 | Dhami Dipak | NEP | 1436 | |
| 181 | AFM | Shubhi Gupta | IND | 1434 |
| 182 | Padmaesh M K | IND | 1430 | |
| 183 | Anshul Mehta | IND | 1420 | |
| 184 | Gunawardhana Devindya Oshini | SRI | 1418 | |
| 185 | Ujaan Bhattacharya | IND | 1416 | |
| 186 | Gyaneshwar B | IND | 1404 | |
| 187 | Khuanna Kapoor | IND | 1404 | |
| 188 | Vinayak Agarwal | IND | 1404 | |
| 189 | Jeyanth R | IND | 1403 | |
| 190 | Amarathunga Kosala Sandeepa Chamikara | SRI | 1401 | |
| 191 | Rout Yashita | IND | 1392 | |
| 192 | Dinesh Kumar Gupta | IND | 1383 | |
| 193 | Shivam Yadav | IND | 1377 | |
| 194 | Prathamesh Santosh Gawade | IND | 1371 | |
| 195 | Sanath K Jamadagni | IND | 1364 | |
| 196 | Vaibhav Gautam | IND | 1358 | |
| 197 | Ajay Santhosh Parvathareddy | IND | 1356 | |
| 198 | AFM | Sureka Akshat | IND | 1342 |
| 199 | Prakaash S A Krishna | IND | 1342 | |
| 200 | Kian Dishank Shah | IND | 1339 | |
| 201 | Darsh Shetty | IND | 1336 | |
| 202 | Ramadugu Akshay | IND | 1330 | |
| 203 | AFM | Bir Singh Raminder | IND | 1328 |
| 204 | Jain Hitansh | IND | 1321 | |
| 205 | Mayukh Majumder | IND | 1320 | |
| 206 | Arpit Kumar | IND | 1314 | |
| 207 | AIM | Sikkam Sai Vishnu | IND | 1299 |
| 208 | Shawn Pravin | IND | 1296 | |
| 209 | Vandan Alankar Sawai | IND | 1289 | |
| 210 | Tarun N | IND | 1285 | |
| 211 | Oishik Kundu | IND | 1272 | |
| 212 | AFM | Avya Maini | IND | 1267 |
| 213 | AFM | Vihaan Dumir | IND | 1263 |
| 214 | Yuvika Sehgal | IND | 1263 | |
| 215 | Dissanayake D M Madushan Sameera | SRI | 1261 | |
| 216 | Anaishaa Pinkesh Nahar | IND | 1254 | |
| 217 | Kavish Aryan Lanka | IND | 1253 | |
| 218 | Shreya Rana | IND | 1242 | |
| 219 | Vihaan Chowdhary N | IND | 1233 | |
| 220 | Abeyrathne K W A M G Dinod Uthsanda | SRI | 1225 | |
| 221 | Anubhav Rawat | IND | 1220 | |
| 222 | Astha Rastogi | IND | 1220 | |
| 223 | AFM | Aadya Gupta | IND | 1218 |
| 224 | Vivaan Chawla | IND | 1217 | |
| 225 | Aryan Sista | IND | 1210 | |
| 226 | Satyaki G Gokul | IND | 1210 | |
| 227 | Sherali Pattnaik | IND | 1209 | |
| 228 | Srinivas Asapu | IND | 1192 | |
| 229 | ACM | Dhotre Samihan | IND | 1166 |
| 230 | AIM | Sagar Bansal | IND | 1161 |
| 231 | Irondla Akash Kumar | IND | 1159 | |
| 232 | Khan H K | IND | 1154 | |
| 233 | Jaganath C | IND | 1150 | |
| 234 | Durga Karthika Lellapalli | IND | 1149 | |
| 235 | Rajkumar D | IND | 1146 | |
| 236 | Sadavarte Atharv | IND | 1143 | |
| 237 | Shrey Jain | IND | 1134 | |
| 238 | Aadhya Jain | IND | 1128 | |
| 239 | Debaryo Basu | IND | 1128 | |
| 240 | Parth Belwal | IND | 1100 | |
| 241 | Harshit Jaggi | IND | 1099 | |
| 242 | Abhishek Shankar | IND | 1095 | |
| 243 | Saini Bhavya | IND | 1081 | |
| 244 | Mahir Taneja | IND | 1074 | |
| 245 | Ishant Singh | IND | 1073 | |
| 246 | Swasti Jha | IND | 1068 | |
| 247 | AFM | Hiya Garg | IND | 1062 |
| 248 | Dhruv Singh Bisht | IND | 1059 | |
| 249 | Sambhav Setiya | IND | 1022 | |
| 250 | Siddhant Chaturvedi | IND | 1020 | |
| 251 | Bimansa D G Jayandi | SRI | 1012 | |
| 252 | Ahaan Alsisaria | IND | 1011 | |
| 253 | Darsh Ilwadi | IND | 1003 | |
| 254 | Mishka Mathur | IND | 1002 | |
| 255 | ACM | Shashank Pali | IND | 0 |
| 256 | ACM | Vemula Pradyumna Lakshmi | IND | 0 |
| 257 | Abhibhav Kumar | IND | 0 | |
| 258 | Abhiraj Ratna | IND | 0 | |
| 259 | Abhishek Bharadwaj | IND | 0 | |
| 260 | Adhiraaj Sejwal | IND | 0 | |
| 261 | Advaitt Srikant Koduri | IND | 0 | |
| 262 | Advik Srinivasan | IND | 0 | |
| 263 | Akshaj Gupta | IND | 0 | |
| 264 | Andalamala Hemal Varshan | IND | 0 | |
| 265 | Aniket Mohan | IND | 0 | |
| 266 | Arav Arora | IND | 0 | |
| 267 | Arsh Kashyap | IND | 0 | |
| 268 | Atharv Verma | IND | 0 | |
| 269 | Avanish Bahadur | IND | 0 | |
| 270 | Bansal Reyansh | IND | 0 | |
| 271 | Dayal Samar | ENG | 0 | |
| 272 | Goddeti Penchala Narasimhareddy | IND | 0 | |
| 273 | Hardeep Kumar | IND | 0 | |
| 274 | Hriday Garg | IND | 0 | |
| 275 | Ishaan Vishnumangalam Narayanaswany | IND | 0 | |
| 276 | Ishat Sarin | IND | 0 | |
| 277 | Jaanvi Tejiny Andalamala | IND | 0 | |
| 278 | Jalluri Bhargav | IND | 0 | |
| 279 | Kannangara Ginuri | SRI | 0 | |
| 280 | Kannangara Ranul Insitha | SRI | 0 | |
| 281 | Manish Batta | IND | 0 | |
| 282 | Mehul Sondhi | IND | 0 | |
| 283 | Muthyala Gurunadham | IND | 0 | |
| 284 | Pranav Rai | IND | 0 | |
| 285 | Rishabh Pradhan | IND | 0 | |
| 286 | Rohit Kathuria | IND | 0 | |
| 287 | Sethi Siddharth | ENG | 0 | |
| 288 | Shabadjot Singh | IND | 0 | |
| 289 | Shashwat Singh | IND | 0 | |
| 290 | Shaurya Chaudhry | IND | 0 | |
| 291 | Shivoham Chatterjee | IND | 0 | |
| 292 | Shreyansh Alsisaria | IND | 0 | |
| 293 | Sumit Kumar | IND | 0 | |
| 294 | Tanish Chaurasia | IND | 0 | |
| 295 | Udit Sharma | IND | 0 | |
| 296 | Wadduwage Thamindu Upeksha | SRI | 0 |
