Riga Grand Prix QF: MVL with the win!
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was the first player to reach the semifinals of the Riga FIDE Grand Prix after scoring the only classical win in the quarterfinal classical games. He beat Veselin Topalov with Black in a complex first game and then accepted a shocking draw offer on move 12 in the next to seal victory. The other matches go to tiebreaks, with only Mamedyarov-Duda so far having come close to producing decisive action.
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Carlsen conquers Croatia: 7 conclusions
Magnus Carlsen’s simply “insane” (Giri) year continued as he beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round to win the 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour by a full point. That made it 8 tournament victories in a row, 79 classical game...
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Croatia GCT 10: Nothing to see here
Magnus Carlsen still leads Wesley So by half a point going into the final round of the 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour after their head-to-head clash was an instantly forgettable draw. It seemed as though the other players took the...
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Croatia GCT 9: Aronian stops Carlsen… just!
Levon Aronian found some brilliant defensive resources to avoid becoming Magnus Carlsen’s fourth victim in a row after another paradoxical opening idea from the World Champion almost worked to perfection. The only victory in Roun...
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Croatia GCT 8: Carlsen’s “special” win over Ding
Magnus Carlsen got to unleash some unused World Championship preparation on Ding Liren in Round 8 of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour, and although the world no. 3 survived the middlegame he was hunted down in the endgame. “A win is ...
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Croatia GCT 7: Carlsen ends his Nepo jinx
Magnus Carlsen took the sole lead in the Croatia Grand Chess Tour with four rounds to go after finally beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in a game of classical chess. The Russian made one mistake, but it was catastrophic, and saw his po...
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Croatia GCT 6: Carlsen and So catch Nepo
Magnus Carlsen scored a 14th classical career win over Hikaru Nakamura in Round 6 to catch Ian Nepomniachtchi, after the runaway leader was put to the sword by Ding Liren. They were joined in the lead by Wesley So, who took down ...
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Croatia GCT 5: Lev blames schedule for missed win
Levon Aronian played more star moves and missed more chances than in all the other games combined as he failed to complete what should have been a minor masterpiece against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Instead it was Ding Liren who sco...
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Croatia GCT 4: An epic struggle
A shaken Magnus Carlsen lamented how much he’d missed as his attempt to mate Shakhriyar Mamedyarov almost backfired spectacularly, but ultimately what he described as an “epic struggle” ended in a draw. In fact all games were dra...
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Croatia GCT 3: “Game on!” as Nepo hits 3/3
“It’s clearly game on”, said Magnus Carlsen, after Ian Nepomniachtchi scored a crushing KID win over Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to take a full point lead after three rounds of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour. For the second day in a row ...
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Croatia GCT 2: Nepo beats Fabi to take early lead
Ian Nepomniachtchi is world no. 4 and the sole leader of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour after fighting back to win a lost position against Fabiano Caruana in Round 2. The remaining five games were all drawn, with the world’s top th...
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