Check out the pictures taken during the Sinquefield Cup 2016 awarding (closing) ceremony:
Photos credit: Lennart Ootes: Website | Twitter
In case you missed it, here is the final ranking of the tournament:
Sinquefield Cup 2016 Final Ranking
# | Name | Pts | SB |
---|---|---|---|
1 | So, Wesley | 5.5 | 24.50 |
2 | Anand, Viswanathan | 5.0 | 22.25 |
Aronian, Levon | 5.0 | 21.75 | |
Caruana, Fabiano | 5.0 | 21.50 | |
Topalov, Veselin | 5.0 | 21.00 | |
6 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 4.5 | 20.25 |
Nakamura, Hikaru | 4.5 | 18.50 | |
8 | Ding, Liren | 4.0 | 17.50 |
9 | Svidler, Peter | 3.5 | 15.25 |
10 | Giri, Anish | 3.0 | 14.50 |
And the tally so far of the Grand Chess Tour 2016:
Grand Chess Tour 2016 Ranking After Paris, Leuven, and St. Louis
Player | Paris | Leuven | St Louis | Total | Prize Money |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wesley So | 7.00 | 10.00 | 13.00 | 30.00 | $120,000 |
Magnus Carlsen* | 10.00 | 13.00 | - | 23.00 | $67,500 |
Levon Aronian | 6.00 | 8.00 | 7.75 | 21.75 | $66,250 |
Hikaru Nakamura | 13.00 | 4.00 | 4.50 | 21.50 | $62,500 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 8.00 | 5.00 | 4.50 | 17.50 | $40,000 |
Fabiano Caruana | 3.00 | 6.00 | 7.75 | 16.75 | $58,750 |
Viswanathan Anand | - | 7.00 | 7.75 | 14.75 | $51,250 |
Veselin TopalovĀ | 2.00 | 1.00 | 7.75 | 10.75 | $51,250 |
Anish Giri | 5.00 | 2.50 | 1.00 | 8.50 | $30,000 |
Vladimir Kramnik | 4.00 | 2.50 | - | 6.50 | $15,000 |
Ding Liren* | - | - | 3.00 | 3.00 | $15,000 |
Peter Svidler* | - | - | 2.00 | 2.00 | $15,000 |
Laurent Fressinet* | 1.00 | - | - | 1.00 | $7,500 |
* Considered as wildcards for the tour.
Lawrence Lai
Great performance Wesley !! Congrats
Mayakapra Gbirds
Proud to be Filipino!
Nhoy Salonga
He is the greatest filipino wood pusher.
Ron Rafol Doc
Salamat wesle! š kala ko nakalimutan mo na ang bayan natin…
Lucygen Pesayco
cool
Jessan S Aquino
It’s in the blood
Genesis Pabilario
Yeebah Wesley, show them what you’ve got boy!
Resvin Diocares
Wow na wow!
Emerson Belardo Sayaman
Congrats wesley!
Felipe Nieves
Congrats supra GM Wesley So proud pinoy.