Las Vegas, July 18 -- A new chapter will be written in the Arjun Erigaisi-Levon Aronian saga as the Indian Grandmaster stormed into the semifinals of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, defeating Uzbekistan's Nodirbek Abdusattorov 1.5-0.5 in just two games of the 30'+30" time control.
Arjun, with this win, became the first Indian ever to reach the semifinals stage of a Freestyle Grand Slam Tour event.
The first game against Abdusattorov was drawn after a tense positional struggle. However, in the second game, Arjun capitalised on a questionable exchange sacrifice by the Uzbek prodigy. A later knight trade further widened the material gap, and despite stiff resistance, Arjun converted the advantage into a crucial victory.
With this, Arju...