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The two players who have shown the strongest and most stable performances throughout the event reached the final of the FIDE Grand Prix in Berlin. Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura drew with black on Sunday to knock out Leinier Dominguez and Richard Rapport, respectively. Since there was no need for tiebreaks in either match, the finalists will have a rest day on Monday. | Photos: World Chess

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Magnus Carlsen is leading the World Championship match against Ian Nepomniachtchi after scoring a memorable win. In our fourth and final instalment of Carlsen’s previous matches, we look at his 2018 confrontation against Fabiano Caruana. For the first time in a match for the crown, all the classical games finished drawn. The defending champion won the rapid tiebreaks categorically though, and thus kept his title. | Photo: Niki Riga

The 2021 FIDE Grand Swiss in Riga, Latvia has featured many exciting new opening ideas and double-edged games, as the world’s best players fight for spots in the World Championship cycle. Canadian FM and opening expert Joshua Doknjas analyzes five interesting games from the first half of the event. | Photo: Mark Livshitz

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, cette fois, tient bon dans sa Najdorf face à Caruana. Même résultat pour les quatre autres parties du jour.

Après quelques mauvais résultats, et dautres en demi-teinte, gagner la Sinquefield Cup était ce dont Maxime Vachier-Lagrave avait besoin ! Mais ce nest pas tout, MVL termine aussi deuxième du circuit Grand Chess Tour 2021 (de

MVL a conservé la première place, mais aussi récupéré sa place de numéro 1 français au Elo ! Caruana et So lemportent également et partagent la première place du tournoi.

Après quelques mauvais résultats, et dautres en demi-teinte, gagner la Sinquefield Cup était ce dont Maxime Vachier-Lagrave avait besoin ! Mais ce nest pas tout, MVL termine aussi deuxième du circuit Grand Chess Tour 2021 (de

The Sinquefield Cup concluded on August 26 with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave scoring 6/9 points and winning clear first ahead of three Americans: Fabiano Caruana, Leinier Dominguez, and Wesley So. So scored 2½/3 in the early rounds and played a very solid tournament, which brought him the 2021 Grand Chess Tour title. Joshua Doknjas takes a look at 4 interesting games from the event. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave got clear first place at the Sinquefield Cup after all five games finished drawn in round 9 — i.e. none of the chasers managed to catch up with him in the last hurdle. Thanks to his performance in Saint Louis, MVL returned to the top 10 in the world ranking and grabbed second place in this year’s Grand Chess Tour. Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana and Leinier Dominguez finished a half point back. | Photo: Lennart Ootes