Mumbai, Dec. 14 -- Arjun Erigaisi shared a few laughs during the curtain-raiser of the Global Chess League and posed for selfie requests. This image of Erigaisi here on Saturday was in contrast to less than a month ago in Goa. That was a picture of heartbreak - literally too as Erigaisi posted that emoji on X - after the second seed crashed out from the quarter-finals of the FIDE World Cup. It shattered his goal of qualifying for the 2026 Candidates for which three spots from the home event were up for grabs. R Praggnanandhaa is the sole Indian in the 2026 Candidates. A so-near-yet-so-far tale can be hard to digest once but for the 22-year-old, it was a repeat of the 2023 World Cup. He stumbled in the last 8 there too. It therefore took a f...