World Blitz Team Championships: Arjun Erigaisi beats Carlsen as Team MGD1 clinch silver

Astana [Kazakhstan], August 6 (ANI): GM Arjun Erigaisi-led Team MGD1 banked on their all-Indian star cast to clinch the silver medal in the inaugural World Blitz Team Championships in Astana.

World Blitz Team Championships is a club-based event conceptualized by the world chess governing body Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE).

In the final against Team WR Chess, Arjun upset former world champion and world no. 1