India's No. 4 Grand Master Arjun Arigasi, 18, has also been seeded top in Menorca International Chess and has managed to get off to a good start by winning the first two rounds. Arjun defeated hosts Spain's Luis Pablo in the first round and Alinsab Mobina of Israel in the second round.

However, just before the selection of the Indian team for the upcoming Chess Olympiad to be held on May 1, most Indian players have to work on improving their world rankings. Apart from Arjun, Nihal Sarin, D Gukesh, Adhiban Bhaskaran, Raunak Sadhwani, SP Sethuraman, Aryan Chopra have also started well by winning their first two matches in this competition.

Let us inform that 137 players from 25 countries have started participating in the competition. In this competition of total 7 rounds, the last match is going to be played on 24 April.

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