Arjun Erigaisi: ‘I played too aggressively at Tata Steel… was one of the toughest tournaments of my life’

“It was one of the toughest tournaments of my life so far. There is always learning to be taken away from tournaments. Especially in such tournaments like there are many (learnigns to be taken away). But the ones that I can reveal is that I was playing a bit too aggressively and taking too much risks. Actually this I realized like mid-event, like during the tournament itself. So in the second half of the tournament, I was trying to play more solidly and, and since then, it went better,” Erigaisi says that his 2025 is not as stacked with events so far as his 2024 was. He was recently picked up by esports team Gen.G for the upcoming Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh. He will be competing in Champions Chess Tour events to qualify for the physical event in Saudi Arabia. “I will be competing in the Paris edition of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour later this year,” reveals Erigaisi before adding: “I will also be playing at Norway Chess this tear. I will of course play the Grand Swiss and FIDE World Cup to try and qualify for the Candidates tournament. Apart from that, I don’t have an idea where I will play. But I think it will be the typical World Rapid Blitz and maybe World Rapid Blitz Team events this year.”