15 year old Indian Grandmaster Gukesh won the Sunway tournament in Spain

Indian Grandmaster (GM) D Gukesh emerged champion in the first Chessable Sunway Formentera Open 2022 chess tournament here on Sunday. This i...

Indian Grandmaster (GM) D Gukesh emerged champion in the first Chessable Sunway Formentera Open 2022 chess tournament here on Sunday. This is Gukesh's third consecutive title win. He completed a hat-trick of titles here in recent weeks after winning La Roda and the Menorca Open.

The 15-year-old played in the final round with Armenia's GM Haik M Martirosyan to win the title with a total of eight points. He had defeated second seed K Sashikiran in the ninth round. Unbeaten for nine stages, Gukesh scored 16 ELO points on his performance here. He has now reached number 64 in the world rankings. Apart from Sashikiran, Gukesh held top seed Jaime Santos Latasa, third seed Shant Sargisan (Armenia) to a draw. Shashikiran (ELO 2650) had to settle for ninth place with 5.5 points.

Meanwhile, at Malmo, Arjun Erigaisi (3 points) let go of a golden opportunity to nail Dutchman Jorden van Foreest in the closing moments of their drawn encounter in the fifth round of Tepe Sigeman round-robin chess tournament on Saturday. The draw kept Arjun in second place, jointly with Nils Grandelius (Sweden). Leader Hans Moke Niemann (4) enlarged his lead to one point after beating Alexei Shirov.