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The old city of Leuven
An gorgeous playing venue for a top tournament: the old city hall
in the center of Leuven
Ornate roofs...
...and facades
The entry to the chess tournament
The city of Leuven in Belgium and its fantastic old city hall offered a splendid venue for the second leg of the Grand Chess Tour. Over four days the world's best players showed their skills in rapid and in blitz chess. World Champion Magnus Carlsen won both tournaments even though he expressed some dissatisfaction with his play in an interview with Maurice Ashley at the end of the tournament.
With several teams of commentators the tournament was excellently presented and could be followed live on the internet.
Quiet before the round...
Tournament director Malcolm Pein
At the beginning of each tournament day the players sat down
among the spectators and waited until Malcolm Pein introduced then one by one.
Veselin Topalov
Vishy Anand
Wesley So
Vladimir Kramnik
Magnus Carlsen
Anish Giri
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Fabiano Caruana
Hikaru Nakamura
The tournament venue
Carlsen and Nakamura met in the last round and Carlsen was already clear first
but encounters between these two are always exciting.
Caruana had some trouble against Anand but escaped to a draw
Jennifer Shahade and Yasser Seirawan were commentating the games from St. Louis
Maurice Ashley was present in Leuven - here in an interview with
Garry Kasparov who paid a surprise visit to Leuven.
Sunil Weeramantry and Kris Littlejohn follow the games of Hikaru Nakamura
Winning is fun - and put Magnus Carlsen
in the mood for letting fans take pictures
Maurice Ashley with the winner of the Grand Chess Tour Leuven 2016
Congratulations!
Final result of the Grand Chess Tour Leuven 2016
The next GCT tournament is not that far away
Photos: André Schulz, Grand Chess Tour
Links
Tournament page Grand Chess Tour...
Grand Chess Tour on Twitter...
Tournament page Leuven...
