Arjun Erigaisi conquer Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan in the to start with spherical of the Sharjah Masters, a $52000 prize cash event, on Wednesday.
Arjun capitalised on a strategic mid-activity error by Safarli to fetch the gain.
The earth no. 7 Indian grandmaster acquired the upper hand when Safarli went for unwarranted problems offering Arjun a perilous handed pawn in the center sport.
Arjun marched his pawn to the seventh rank collected a rook for a knight and cruised by.
Grandmasters Aravindh Chithamabaram and P Iniyan also begun their campaign with wins as they defeated compatriot Bharath Subramaniyam and Irani Pouya of Iran respectively.
Nevertheless, for the greater-seeded gamers, it was a tricky day as the bulk of them played out draws.
Amid the other Indian players, S L Narayanan shared the details with Turkish Sanal Vahap though Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus held Nihal Sarin to a creditable draw.
GM D Harika, the lone Indian females in the fray, commenced her marketing campaign holding Manuel Petrosyan of Armenia to draw.
Eight rounds even now stay in the 88-participant event.
Indian results round 1:
Erigaisi Arjun beat Eltaj Safarli (Aze) S P Sethuraman drew with Temour Radjabov (Aze) Amin Tabatabaei (Iri) defeat V Pranav S L Narayanan drew with Sanal Vahap Tur) Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (Tur) drew with Nihal Sarin Aravindh Chithambaram conquer Bharath Subramaniyam Raunak Sadhwani drew with David Gavrilescu (Rou) Sankalp Gupta drew with Ter-Sahakyan Samvel (Arm) Nguyen Thai Dai Van (Cze) defeat Pranav Anand Leon Luke Mendonca lost to Marcin Krzyzanowski (Pol) Abhimanyu Mishra (United states) conquer Raja Rithvik Abhimanyu Puranik drew with B Adhiban D Harika drew with Manuel Petrosyan (Arm) Nikolas Theodorou (Gre) defeat Aditya Samant Samant Aditya Mittal drew with Cardoso Jose Gabriel (Esp) P Iniyan beat Idani Pouya (Iri) Abhijeet Gupta drew with Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kaz).