The 6th day of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2026 in India has concluded. After 6 rounds, Alireza Firouzja leads with 4 points, while Nodirbek Abdusattorov is in second place with 3.5 points.

🇮🇳 Pranesh M defeated 🇮🇳 Gukesh Dommaraju by making 3 Great moves. Pranesh played the game with 91.1 accuracy, while Gukesh’s was 82.2. Gukesh dropped to 2702.9 points in the live rating.

The current standings are:

Place Player Score
1. 🇫🇷 GM Alireza Firouzja 4
2. 🇺🇿 GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov 3.5
3. 🇮🇳 GM Arjun Erigaisi 3.5
4. 🇷🇺 GM Dmitry Andreikin 3
5. 🇮🇳 GM Nihal Sarin 3
6. 🇮🇳 GM M Pranesh 3
7. 🇺🇸 GM Hans Niemann 2.5
8. 🇮🇳 GM Gukesh Dommaraju 1.5

Individual round results:

🇺🇸 Hans Moke Niemann 0.5-0.5 🇷🇺 Dmitry Andreikin

🇺🇿 Nodirbek Abdusattorov 0.5-0.5 🇫🇷 Alireza Firouzja

🇮🇳 Arjun Erigaisi 0-1 🇮🇳 Nihal Sarin

🇮🇳 Pranesh M 1-0 🇮🇳 Gukesh Dommaraju

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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