GCT Paris Rapid & Blitz 2019: Vachier-Lagrave wins!

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8/1/2119 – Day four of the Paris Grand Chess Tour finished with Vachier-Lagrave still in the lead, two points ahead of Alexander Grischuk and Ian Nepomniachtchi, with the latter collecting 5½ points on Tuesday. The best player in the first nine rounds of Blitz, however, was Hikaru Nakamura, who scored 'plus four' to bridge the gap with those atop the standings table. The current US champion is tied in fourth place with Fabiano Caruana and Vishy Anand. Live games and commentary starting at 12:00 UTC (14:00 CEST / 8:00 AM EDT). | Photo: Justin Kellar / Grand Chess Tour
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Blitz - Day 2

In a day of blitz full of twists and turns, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave just barely hung on to take the overall first place in the combined standings with a final score of 21/36. Viswanathan Anand, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Hikaru Nakamura were the top finishers in the blitz tournament, each scoring 10½/18.

From July 27th to August 1st, ten participants play 9 rounds of rapid chess and 18 rounds of blitz in the Paris leg of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour. The tournament is facilitated by generous contributions from Vivendi, Canal+ and Colliers International and carries a total prize fund of USD $150,000.

The last day of action in France's capital starts one hour earlier, at 12:00 UTC (14:00 CEST / 8:00 AM EDT).

Final overall standings

Final standings

Vachier-Lagrave lost 102 Elo points in blitz but won the tournament overall!

Blitz standings

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Pairings and results - Blitz

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Final standings - Rapid

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Players

Seven of the twelve regular tour season players plus three wildcards (Alexander Grischuk, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Daniil Dubov) are participating.

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2019 Grand Chess Tour participants

Ratings as of May 8th, 2019

# FED Name URS* FIDE Elo Born
1 NOR Carlsen, Magnus 2867 (1) 2861 (1) 1990
2 USA Nakamura, Hikaru 2805 (2) 2761 (11) 1987
3 FRA Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2792 (3) 2780 (6) 1990
4 USA Caruana, Fabiano 2791 (4) 2816 (2) 1992
5 CHN Ding, Liren 2786 (5) 2805 (3) 1992
6 AZE Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2777 (6) 2781 (5) 1985
7 RUS Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2776 (7) 2773 (8) 1990
8 ARM Aronian, Levon 2776 (8) 2762 (10) 1982
9 RUS Karjakin, Sergey 2773 (9) 2752 (16) 1990
10 USA So, Wesley 2772 (10) 2754 (13) 1993
11 NED Giri, Anish 2766 (13) 2787 (4) 1994
12 IND Anand, Viswanathan 2759 (15) 2774 (7) 1969

Players in bold are competing in Paris

Paris Rapid & Blitz wildcards

Ratings as of July 26th, 2019

# FED Name URS* FIDE Elo Born
1 RUS Grischuk, Alexander 2769 (11) 2766 (7) 1983
2 POL Duda, Jan-Krzysztof 2737 (25) 2729 (26) 1998
3 RUS Dubov, Daniil 2722 (32) 2700 (38) 1996

*URS stands for Universal Rating System, developed and used by the Grand Chess Tour

Paris wildcards

The three wildcard players in Paris en route to the players meeting | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour

Schedule

There are nine rounds of rapid chess (three games per day for three days), and 18 rounds of blitz (nine rounds per day over two days). The first four days begin at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST / 9:00 AM EDT), while the final day starts one hour earlier

Rapid

Time (CEST)

July 27

Time (CEST)

July 28

Time (CEST)

July 29

15.00

Round 1

15.00

Round 4

15.00

Round 7

16.30

Round 2

16.30

Round 5

16.30

Round 8 

18.00

Round 3

18.00

Round 6

18.00

Round 9

Blitz

Time (CEST)

July 31

Time (CEST)

August 1

15.00

Round 1

14.00

Round 10

15.30

Round 2

14.30

Round 11

16.00

Round 3

15.00

Round 12

16.30

Round 4

15.30

Round 13

17.00

Round 5

16.00

Round 14

17.30

Round 6

16.30

Round 15

18.00

Round 7

17.00

Round 16

18.30

Round 8

17.30

Round 17

19.00

Round 9

18.00

Round 18

 

 

18.30

Playoffs / Prizegiving

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USCF Expert USCF Expert 7/30/2019 05:30
Looks like Mamedyarov left most of his energy at the Fide grand prix tournament - which was a big win for him. He isn't doing so hot in this one. It makes it even more impressive how he managed to beat MVL in that final match, considering how well MVL is performing in this quick type of play tournament so far.
Arthur Berger Arthur Berger 7/28/2019 12:11
Your chart shows wrong birth year for Dubov - should be 1996, not 1988.
chessgod0 chessgod0 7/27/2019 08:20
Correction: Grischuk was not born in 1983, not 1975.
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