Three co-leaders going into the final round
After losing to Peter Svidler in Wednesday’s fifth round, Anton Korobov rejoined the lead by beating Nils Grandelius with the white pieces on the penultimate day of action. Korobov is now sharing first place with Svidler and Arjun Erigaisi, who faced each other and signed a 36-move draw on Thursday.
Korobov’s victory over Grandelius was not the only decisive result of the day, though, as Nodirbek Abdusattorov beat Vincent Keymer to remain with outside chances of winning the event. The Uzbek star stands a half point behind the leading trio, and might even win the tournament outright — though that is a very unlikely scenario.
This video course includes GM Anish Giri's deep insights and IM Sagar Shah's pertinent questions to the super GM. In Vol.1 all the openings after 1.e4 are covered.
In Friday’s final round, none of the co-leaders will face each other, as Arjun and Korobov will play with the black pieces while defending champion Svidler will be the only of the three to get the white pieces.
Pairings - Round 7 (co-leaders in bold)
- Peter Svidler v. Vincent Keymer
- Nils Grandelius v. Arjun Erigaisi
- Ju Wenjun v. Anton Korobov
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov v. Marc’Andria Maurizzi
In case of a tie for first place after the final round, a blitz playoff will decide the winner of the event, featuring 3’+2” blitz games and potential sudden-death encounters with 2½ minutes for Black and 3 minutes for White. Read the full tiebreak regulations here.
Results - Round 6

Co-leaders Arjun Erigaisi and Peter Svidler | Photo: Mikael Svensson / tepesigemanchess.com
Korobov 1 - 0 Grandelius
Let us learn together how to find the best spot for the queen in the early middlegame, how to navigate this piece around the board, how to time the queen attack, how to decide whether to exchange it or not, and much more!

Nils Grandelius | Photo: Mikael Svensson / tepesigemanchess.com
Keymer 0 - 1 Abdusattorov
In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Judit Polgar. Let them show you which openings Polgar chose to play, where her strength in middlegames were, or how she outplayed her opponents in the endgame.

Two of the most talented youngsters in the chess world — Vincent Keymer and Nodirbek Abdusattorov | Photo: Mikael Svensson / tepesigemanchess.com
Standings after round 6
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