The rapid rounds are over for the Grand Chess Tour 2016: Your Next Move in Leuven, Belgium. A great performance was posted by the world champion, Magnus Carlsen, as he won all of his 4 games against three of the former world champions: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, and Vladimir Kramnik, plus Anish Giri. In the process, he clinched the top spot with 18 rounds of blitz games to go in the tournament.
If day one of the rapid games in Leuven was full of surprises, day two was no less so, though thankfully not due to record numbers of blunders. Vishy Anand started the day with a win, but after two losses lost the lead as he was caught up by Wesley So. In the meantime, Magnus Carlsen showed he was back and managed to win the rapid phase after a fabulous 4/4.
The final crosstable of the rapid games follows:
Wesley So stood strong at the second place, and he has yet to lose a game in this tournament. Meanwhile, Hikaru Nakamura, the winner of the Grand Chess Tour Paris 2016, is still at the bottom with 3.5 points, tied with Kramnik.
Replay all rapid games of Your Next Move GCT 2016.
Photo credit: Grand Chess Tour.
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Wesley So is no longer a Filipino citizen.
Ricx De Sekan he’s still a Filipino citizen, he’s just playing under the US federation in FIDE competitions.
Yes he is a filipino but ginawa nya un kc wla syang mapapala dito sa pinas dhil sa kapabayaan ng goberno natin…tingnan mo sya ngaun nsa top 16 sya b4 ngaun malapit ma sya kay carlsen
Mbuti for future chess is one of my best game.