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Arjun Erigaisi, an Uncommon card
Arjun Kumar Erigaisi is an Indian chess grandmaster.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Arjun Erigaisi quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arjun Erigaisi card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A chess prodigy, he earned the title of ______ at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days.
Answer
grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days. From the Arjun Erigaisi article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Earnie Shavers. Earnie Shavers 74 · International Chopin Piano Competition 71 · Arjun Erigaisi 66 · Lorenzo Lucca 63 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 13 days.
- In September 2024, he became India's top rated player, and in December 2024, he achieved his peak rating of 2801, making him the fifteenth-highest rated player in history and second Indian ever to cross the 2800 threshold after Viswanathan Anand.
- Arjun won the double bronze medal at the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2025, becoming the first Indian player to register podium finishes at both events since Viswanathan Anand won the Rapid section and finished third in Blitz in 2017.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arjun Erigaisi article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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- David ThompsonUncommon · Society · ATK 68 DEF 49
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- Arlene FrancisUncommon · Arts · ATK 64 DEF 53
- Escape velocityUncommon · Science · ATK 69 DEF 48
- Lorenzo LuccaUncommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 54
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arjun Erigaisi (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : TheBoburshokh, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.