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ACP 03: Grischuk prevails

9/16/2013 – The strongest knockout rapid tournament of the year has come to a conclusion. In a tournament with many interesting games full of mistakes and emotions, it was at the end that Alexander Grischuk toppled Ian Nepomniatchi in an Armageddon playoff to take the title. We bring you a full summary of the semi-finals and finals including annotations of the decisive game.

ACP 02: rapid World Champion out

9/15/2013 – Many interesting games happened today in Riga. The only match to go into tiebreaks was Nepomniatchi-Malakhov in which the younger player was able to beat his opponent in tiebreaks. In two important matches Svidler was able to take out Radjabov while Grischuk took care of Wojtaszek. Meanwhile the rapid World Champion Mamedyarov was taken out by Ponomariov. Report.

ACP 01: No surprises

9/14/2013 – The strongest knockout rapid tournament of the year has begun in Latvia and few surprises were seen. The rating favorites took their matches, although since rapid ratings are used it is hard to say that this means much. Wojtaszek, Nepomniatchi, Ponomariov, Grischuk, and the reigning World Champion Mamedyarov have advanced. Pictures and analysis.
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