19-year-old GM Arjun Erigaisi is one of many young and very talented Indian chess grandmasters.
In 2016, he won the U-13 Indian Championship, and he became a grandmaster at the age of 14. He is currently number 3 on the world junior top 10 list.
In 2022, he won the Tata Steel Chess Challengers, scoring 10½ points over 13 rounds. In 2022, he also won the Indian Chess Championship and the Abu Dhabi Masters. In the 2022 TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament, he shared place 2-4 behind winner Hans Niemann.
He is participating in the TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament for the second time.