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Arjun Erigaisi beat Magnus Carlsen to begin his campaign positively at the Freestyle Grand Slam Tour Stage 2 in Paris on Monday. The 21-year-old handed the world no. 1 player his sole loss of the day as Carlsen went on to win the next four games and move to the top of the points table with 5/6.
Arjun, who also beat Fabiano Caruana, finished the day with 3.5/6 and is currently the top Indian performer, ahead of compatriot R. Praggnanandhaa, who earned two wins after beating beat Ian Nepomniachtchi and Vidit Gujrathi to score 2.
5/6. World Champion D. Gukesh had a tough start after losing to 1.
5/6. His solitary win was from defeating Arjun, securing his first full point from a Freestyle chess game this year after he went winless through the first leg at Weissenhaus in February. Vidit missed a chance to draw with Carlsen in Round 1 but defeated the Gukesh in the following round to win his only point on the first day.
Day 1 Standings (after six games in round-robin stage) 1. Magnus Carlsen - 5/6 2. Nodirbek Abdusattorov - 5/6 3.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - 4.5/6 4. Ian Nepomniachtchi - 4/6 5.
Hikaru Nakamura - 3.5/6 6. Arjun Erigaisi - 3.
5/6 7. Fabiano Caruana - 2.5/6 8.
R. Praggnanandhaa - 2.5/6 9.
Vincent Keymer - 2/6 10. D. Gukesh - 1.
5/6 11. Vidit Gujrathi - 1/6 12. Richard Rapport - 1/6 Comments Related stories Related Topics Freestyle Chess / Arjun Erigaisi / Magnus Carlsen / D.
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