Arjun Erigaisi superb at 56th Biel GMT Blitz 2023 with a 2864 performance, now World no.17

by Shahid Ahmed - 23/07/2023

Arjun Erigaisi ended his tough form by winning the Blitz event of 56th Biel Chess Festival GMT 2023. He scored 10.5/14, performed at 2864, gained 27.2 Elo rating points, taking his live rating to 2737.2, now he is world no.17 in Blitz. However, David Navara (CZE) and Vincent Keymer (GER) are currently leading the GMT standings with a score of 26/44 each. Arjun will face Jules Moussard (FRA), Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU) and Vincent Keymer (GER) in the last three rounds. Today is a rest day. GMT Round 5 starts tomorrow Monday 24th July. MTO Round 6 starts today from 2 p.m. local time, 5:30 p.m. IST. Photos: Biel Chess Festival

Navara and Keymer in the lead

Haik Martirosyan (ARM) won the Blitz Open event scoring 11/13. IM Harikrishnan A Ra scored sole 9.5/13 to finish fifth. He gained 82.4 Elo rating points. IM Aditya S Samant and GM Bharath Subramaniyam H are the only two other Indians finished in top ten. They scored 9/13 to secure seventh and ninth place. GM-elect IM Rathanvel V S also scored 9/13. He was placed eleventh.

Arjun Erigaisi defeated Liem Quang Le (VIE) in both of their Blitz games

Arjun Erigaisi scored 1.5/2 against the Egypt no.1 Bassem Amin

Arjun Erigaisi registered his first win against David Navara (CZE) at this event and drew the second one

Arjun Erigaisi with a 2864 performance, gained 27.2 Elo rating points to move to world no.17 in the Blitz live ratings | Source: 2700chess.com

David Navara (CZE) scored 7.5/14 in the Blitz to move to the top of the GMT standings 26/44

Vincent Keymer (GER) also has the same score 26/44

A glimpse of GMT Round 3...

and Round 4

Replay 56th Biel International Chess Festival 2023 GMT Blitz Round 1-14 Live commentary by GM Arturs Neiksans (LAT) and Angelika Valkova (UKR) Part 1 | Video: Biel Chess Festival

Replay 56th Biel International Chess Festival 2023 GMT Blitz Round 1-14 Live commentary by GM Arturs Neiksans (LAT) and Angelika Valkova (UKR) Part 2 | Video: Biel Chess Festival

GMT Scoring

Rapid: Win = 2 points, Draw = 1 point and Loss = 0

Classical: Win = 4 points, Draw = 1.5 points and Loss = 0

Blitz: Win = 1 point, Draw = 0.5 point and Loss = 0

GMT Blitz standings

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	TB1
1	3	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun	IND	2710	10,5
2	2	GM	Le, Quang Liem	VIE	2643	8,5
3	1	GM	Navara, David	CZE	2675	7,5
	8	GM	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	2770	7,5
5	7	GM	Moussard, Jules	FRA	2626	7
6	4	GM	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	ROU	2644	6,5
7	5	GM	Keymer, Vincent	GER	2669	5
8	6	GM	Amin, Bassem	EGY	2670	3,5

Details

Current GMT standings

GM David Navara (CZE) and GM Vincent Keymer (GER) have the same score 26/44 | Source: Official site

Classical Round 5 pairings

Bo.	No.	Rtg		Name	Result		Name	Rtg	No.
1	3	2735	GM	Yu, Yangyi		GM	Le, Quang Liem	2728	8
2	4	2689	GM	Navara, David		GM	Keymer, Vincent	2690	2
3	5	2694	GM	Amin, Bassem		GM	Deac, Bogdan-Daniel	2693	1
4	6	2710	GM	Erigaisi, Arjun		GM	Moussard, Jules	2654	7

Details

Links

Official site

GMT details

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