India, Dec. 20 -- D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi bagged their first wins of the ongoing Global Chess League on Thursday, beating Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri in their respective games. The pair were in poor form in the earlier rounds as Gukesh lost to Alireza Firouzja and Viswanathan Anand. Meanwhile, the reigning world champion was held to draws by Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on the Icon board. Meanwhile, Erigaisi drew to Vladislav Artemiev, Wei Yi and Vincent Keymer. The India No. 1 also lost to Wesley So.

The Alaskan Knights had other winners too, as Leinier Dominguez Perez beat R Praggnanandhaa. Kateryna Lagno sealed a win against Hou Yifan.

After the win, Gukesh revealed how he overcame his earlier poor results in the...