Grandmaster Lalit Babu edged past Ayaan Trikha in 64 moves in the Aurionpro Grandmaster chess tournament at the World Trade Centre on Monday (June 16, 2025).
All the top players from Levan Pantsulaia, Manuel Petrosyan, Luka Paichadze, Mihail Nikitenko, Mamikon Gharibyan and Boris Savchenkko won on expected lines.
In the junior section, top seed Aansh Nerurkar was stretched to 84 moves by Vihaan Rao.
The results (first round): Levan Pantsulaia bt Siddhardh Raman; Luka Paichadze bt Shubh Kapur; Soumil Gogte lost to Mihail Nikitenko; Aditya Chavan lost to Mamikon Gharibyan; Boris Savchenko bt Advik Reddy; Saranya Devi lost to Vedant Panesar; Tomike Sanikidze bt Bhavya Gupta; Shahan Vohra lost to Deepan Chakkravarthy; Arsen Davtyan bt Arjun Singh; Mayuresh Parkar lost to Duc Hoa Nguyen; Alexander Slizhevsky bt Indra Reddy; Shitiz Prasad lost to Aleksej Aleksandrov; Alexei FEdorov bt Vageesh Swaminathan; Raj Kapoor llost to Nayaka Budhidharma.
Under-13: Vihaan Rao lost to Aansh Nerurkar; Madhesh Kumar bt Ishaan Bhansali; Krithik Nandyala lost to Advik Agrawal; Avirat Chauhan drew with R Tanmay; Tvesha Jain lost to Madhvendra Sharma; Krishay Jain bt Vinay Kulkarni; Dev Dharshan lost to Aadit Lenin; Samuel Noble bt Ayaanraj Kottapally; Vyom Agashe lost to Shaunak Badole; Adhirat Mitra bt Anay Ghule; Vighnesh Deshpande lost to Vyom Malhotra; Jagreet Misra bt Ishaan Agarwal; Arnav Dhamapurkar lost to Ramanuj Mishra; Maddhav Abeer lost to R Nijesh; Siddhant Salunke bt Dinesh Konda.
Published – June 16, 2025 07:55 pm IST