NEW DELHI: Grandmaster and national champion Arjun Erigaisi came up with yet another inspired effort and crashed through the defences of Karthik Venkataraman to win the 19th Delhi International open chess tournament on Tuesday.
Starting the day in a five-way lead and having the best tie-break, Arjun left nothing to chance as he went for an offensive right from the word go in a Sicilian Najdorf game as white, and even though Karthik posed some challenge in the middle game, the young national champion romped home easily with some finely crafted manoeuvres.
