Divya Delhi: At the end of Round 7 of the 21st Delhi GM Open 2025, GM Abhijeet Gupta was the only player in first place, defeating GM Mamikon Gharibyan (ARM). After losing a pawn due to a positional error in the middlegame, Mamikon did not receive adequate compensation. With this, Abhijeet was able to secure the victory and improve his score to 6.5/7. Even after 19 moves, top seed GM S L Narayanan and GM Boris Savchenko were deadlocked. GM Duc Hoa Nguyen (VIE), GM Levan Pantsulaia (GEO), and GM Tornike Sanikidze (GEO) were defeated by IM Aronyak Ghosh, Viresh Sharnarthi, and Advik Amit Agrawal. There are eight players in the lead, with three Indians—IM Neelash Saha, Narayanan, and Aronyak—trailing by half a point each. Advik Amit Agrawal, who was nine years old when he made history, beat a grandmaster; Aronyak Ghosh and Viresh Sharnarthi also won. General Tornike Sanikidze (GEO), who was significantly ahead in the game, declined to repeat moves in his defeat. He won over IM Arsen Davtyan (ARM), a 14-year-old named Ahaz E U.

Participants hailing from seventeen different nations comprise 419 players, twenty-one of whom are grandmasters, twenty-two international masters, and two women international masters. From June 7th to the 14th, 2025, the Delhi Chess Association will host the eight-day, ten-round Rating Open tournament at New Delhi's Tivoli Gardens. The event's time limit was 90 minutes, with a 30-second increment for each move.