Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 (9)

Vincent Keymer dominates the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025

Ray Robson against Vincent Keymer in the final round. Photo ©

Ray Robson against Vincent Keymer in the final round. Photo © |

Vincent Keymer was the runaway winner of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters. Keymer started with three wins in a row against Nihal Sarin, V Pranav and Murali Karthikeyan. He drew against Giri in Round 4 and in Round 6 against close rival Arjun Erigaisi and then beat Awonder Liang in round 7. He'd already sewn up victory with a round to spare but added to his total by beating Ray Robson in the final round. Clearly one of the performances of the year.

I've annotated the games against Erigaisi and Robson below.

Quantbox Chennai GM 2025 Chennai IND (IND), 7-15 viii 2025 cat. XVIII (2700)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1. Keymer, Vincent g GER 2730 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 7 2916
2. Giri, Anish g NED 2748 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 5 2737
3. Erigaisi, Arjun g IND 2776 ½ ½ * ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 5 2734
4. Karthikeyan, Murali g IND 2658 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 5 2747
5. Nihal, Sarin g IND 2692 0 ½ 1 ½ * ½ 0 0 1 1 2701
6. Liang, Awonder g USA 2696 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 2700
7. Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi g IND 2720 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ 0 4 2654
8. Van Foreest, Jorden g NED 2697 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ * ½ 1 4 2657
9. Pranav, V g IND 2597 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 3 2586
10. Robson, Ray g USA 2687 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ * 3 2576

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