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If you were getting used to just one decisive game per round, then Sunday's round rocks your world with three decisive games, lots of blunders, and electrifying action. Winners were GM Wesley So who prevailed over co-loader GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in an endgame, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave who took down...

After lots of tension and complicated battles, just one game ended decisively when GM Ian Nepomniachtchi beat GM Alireza Firouzja. That the remaining games would all end in draws was far from obvious during the round. Round three will begin on Saturday, May 7, at 5 a.m. PT / 14:00 Central Europe. How...