Grenke LIVE: Caruana wins!

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4/9/2018 – From March 31st to April 9th, the Grenke Chess Classic takes place in Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden, Germany. Ten grandmasters play a single round-robin, headed by World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, the winner of the 2017 tournament, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Viswanathan Anand. Live games and commentary webcast. | Photo: Macauley Peterson
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Round nine

The Grenke Chess Classic is the first tournament for World Champion Magnus Carlsen since he won the Tata Steel Chess tournament in January and the start of a busy few months. He faced his future Challenger for the World Championship, Fabiano Caruana, fresh off his Berlin win, already in the first round.

Fabiano Caruana won his last round game against Nikita Vitiugov, and therefore secured clear first place.

The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and then 15 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1.

Impressions from round nine

Live games and commentary

 

Commentary by GM Peter Leko and GM Jan Gustafsson

Current standings

 

Peter Leko's Round 9 recap

Vincent Keymer wins Grenke Open

The Grenke Chess Open in Karlsruhe ran from March 29th to April 2nd. The top A-open group contained over 300 players including over 50 grandmasters, four of whom are over 2700: Etienne Bacrot, Richard Rapport, Wang Hao and Dmitry Andreikin.

IM Vincent Keymer was the surprise winner.

Final standings

Rank Title Teilnehmer Elo Attr. Club/City FED W D L Points Buchh
1. IM Keymer, Vincent 2403 M SF Deizisau GER 7 2 0 8.0 52.5
2. GM Korobov, Anton 2664 M SC Viernheim UKR 6 3 0 7.5 56.0
3. GM Gordievsky, Dmitry 2630 M   RUS 6 3 0 7.5 54.5
4. GM Shirov, Alexei 2651 M OSG Baden-Baden LAT 6 3 0 7.5 52.0
5. GM Lagarde, Maxime 2587 M SF Deizisau FRA 6 2 1 7.0 57.0
6. GM Bindrich, Falko 2602 M DJK Aufwärts Aachen GER 5 4 0 7.0 54.0
7. GM Sadzikowski, Daniel 2583 M SC Heusenstamm POL 5 4 0 7.0 53.5
7. GM Firat, Burak 2453 M   TUR 5 4 0 7.0 53.5
9. GM Antal, Gergely 2540 M ESV Nickelhütte Aue HUN 6 2 1 7.0 52.5
9. IM Valsecchi, Alessio 2510 M   ITA 6 2 1 7.0 52.5
11. GM Andreikin, Dmitry 2712 M   RUS 5 4 0 7.0 52.5
12. IM Santos Latasa, Jaime 2549 M   ESP 5 4 0 7.0 52.0
13. GM Kollars, Dmitrij 2534 M Hamburger SK GER 6 2 1 7.0 51.5
13. IM Grinberg, Eyal 2448 M   ISR 6 2 1 7.0 51.5
15. GM Wang, Hao 2713 M   CHN 5 4 0 7.0 51.0
15. GM Heimann, Andreas 2574 M SF Deizisau GER 5 4 0 7.0 51.0
15. GM Malakhatko, Vadim 2536 M   BEL 5 4 0 7.0 51.0
18. GM Landa, Konstantin 2613 M SV Mülheim-Nord RUS 5 4 0 7.0 50.5
19. GM Bacrot, Etienne 2718 M OSG Baden-Baden FRA 5 4 0 7.0 50.0
20. IM Lampert, Jonas 2532 M Hamburger SK GER 6 2 1 7.0 49.5
21. IM Noe, Christopher 2494 M SC Eppingen GER 5 4 0 7.0 49.5
22. IM Fedorovsky, Michael 2471 M FC Bayern München GER 5 4 0 7.0 49.0
23. GM David, Alberto 2566 M   ITA 7 0 2 7.0 47.5
24. GM Burmakin, Vladimir 2522 M SF 90 Spraitbach RUS 5 4 0 7.0 47.0
25. GM Mikhalevski, Victor 2557 M SV Lingen ISR 7 0 2 7.0 44.5
26. FM Baenziger, Fabian 2356 M Luzern SK SUI 6 2 1 7.0 42.5

...Total 787 players

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Topics: Arkadij Naiditsch, Fabiano Caruana, Georg Meier, Germany, Grenke Chess Classic 2018, Hou Yifan, Karlsruhe, Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Matthias Bluebaum, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Nikita Vitiugov, Viswanathan Anand
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