The 2nd day of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2026 in India has concluded. After 2 rounds, Alireza Firouzja leads with 2 points, while Nodirbek Abdusattorov is in second place with 1 point.

🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja defeated 🇮🇳 Gukesh Dommaraju by making 8 Great moves. Firouzja played the game with 87.1 accuracy, while Gukesh’s was 83.1.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇫🇷 GM Alireza Firouzja 2
2. 🇺🇿 GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 1
3. 🇮🇳 GM Arjun Erigaisi 1
4. 🇺🇸 GM Hans Moke Niemann 1
5. 🇷🇺 GM Dmitry Andreikin 1
6. 🇮🇳 GM Nihal Sarin 1
7. 🇮🇳 GM Gukesh Dommaraju 0.5
8. 🇮🇳 GM M Pranesh 0.5

Individual round results:

🇺🇸 Hans Moke Niemann 0.5-0.5 🇮🇳 Nihal Sarin

🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja 1-0 🇮🇳 Gukesh Dommaraju

🇷🇺 Dmitry Andreikin 0.5-0.5 🇮🇳 Pranesh M

🇺🇿 Nodirbek Abdusattorov 0.5-0.5 🇮🇳 Arjun Erigaisi

The Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2026 takes place from July 16 to 22, at the Westin Chennai Velachery in India. The event features a 90+30 time control over one Round-Robin between 8 players. The tournament prize fund is $77,800 with $26,000 for first place.

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