Chennai Grand Masters 2024
In 2023 India got its highest ever classical super tournament in the form of Chennai Grand Masters. The tournament with an everage rating of 2711 proved to be a perfect event for fighting and high quality chess as well as an important one in the FIDE circuit. This year the event is back — bigger and better. Not only has the rating average of masters grown to 2729, but we also have a challengers section with 8 talented Indian youngsters fighting for that 1 masters spot. Read on to know all the players, prize money, schedule, venue and more of the Chennai Grand Masters 2024.
Masters — Average rating 2729
The Masters event will feature the current world no. 3 and India no.1 Arjun Erigaisi. We also have two more strong Indian players in the form of Vidit Gujrathi and Aravindh Chithamabram.
The players of the 2nd edition of the Chennai Grandmasters are — Arjun Erigaisi (2797), Levon Aronian (2738), Maxime Vachier Lagrave (2735), Vidit Gujrathi (2726), Parham Maghsoodloo (2719), Alexey Sarana (2717), Amin Tabatabaei (2702), Aravindh Chithambaram (2698). The rating average of this tournament is 2729 with the October rating list. The ratings will be updated as per the November rating list before the start of the event.
Challengers — Average rating 2589
The Challengers section is the new addition to the Chennai Grandmasters. It’s intention is to give the budding young talents of Indian chess a chance to play in a top level tournament and the winner gets to qualify to next year’s masters. Raunak Sadhwani (2659), Abhimanyu Puranik, (2639), Karthikeyan Murali (2624), Leon Mendonca (2622), Pranav V. (2609), Pranesh M. (2580), Harika Dronavalli (2493), R. Vaishali (2486) are the players and all of them have the potential to go on to becoming world class players
Prizes:
The total prize fund in the Masters section is Rs.50 lakh, while the prize fund in the challengers is Rs.20 lakh
