Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi on Sunday turned the second Indian after legendary Viswanathan Anand and sixteenth worldwide to achieve the gold-standard ELO ranking of 2800, whereas additionally occupying the fourth spot within the newest rankings.
The 21-year-old has been in sensational kind this 12 months, having received a person gold in addition to staff title in India’s latest historic efficiency within the Chess Olympiad.
“Arjun Erigaisi has turn out to be the sixteenth participant in historical past to interrupt the 2800 Elo barrier in classical chess scores!” the world governing physique of the game FIDE stated on ‘X’.
“ArjunErigaisi joins five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand because the second Indian to attain this milestone. Within the December 2024 #FIDERating record, his ranking stands at 2801, and he’s at the moment ranked #4 on the planet! Earlier this 12 months, this 21-year-old additionally delivered a stellar efficiency on the forty fifth #ChessOlympiad, successful each staff gold and particular person gold!”
Born in Warangal, Telangana, Erigaisi earned the Grandmaster’s title on the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days. In September 2024, he turned India’s high rated participant.
Erigaisi now has 2801 ranking factors for the fourth sport, slightly below Hikaru Nakamura (2802) of USA. Norwegian Magnus Carlsen continued to be on the high spot with 2831 scores, adopted by Fabiano Caruana (2805) of the USA.
One other Indian chess prodigy, the 18-year-old D Gukesh, who’s at the moment preventing towards Ding Liren of China for the World Championships title in Singapore, is one place beneath Erigaisi at fifth with 2783 scores. Liren (2728) is at twenty second.
