India, April 10 -- Arjun Erigaisi couldn't salvage the game this time around. After managing to draw Game 1 from a difficult position, the Indian was outplayed by world No 2 Hikaru Nakamura in their second classical quarterfinal knockout match-up on Thursday.

The world No 4's loss effectively means no Indian player will be in contention for the $200,000 top prize in the Paris leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.

"For better or worse, he's (Arjun) gained a lot of rating in open tournaments and I think that worked against him specifically in this game because I felt that at one point he should have sensed the danger and tried to make a draw," Nakamura said on the Chessbase India stream. "But I felt like he was treating it like some...