Day 2 of three rapid games for Rounds 4, 5 and 6 of Grand Chess Tour Paris 2017: Magnus Carlsen scored another impressive 2 wins and a draw, including his Round 4 win against Wesley So.[replay]
Grand Chess Tour Paris 2017 Game Results
Round 4
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Round 5
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Round 6
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Grand Chess Tour Paris 2017 Ranking After Rapid Round 6
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Fabiano Caruana was fortunate to secure a draw in Round 4, otherwise he would have scored zero in this tournament so far. He has yet to win a game with 5 losses.
As per GCT Paris format, rapid games are assigned 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.
Replay all rapid games in GCT Paris 2017.
Photo credit: Grand Chess Tour
Wesley So lost to Magnus Carlsen in Round 4:
Karjakin, Sergey Caruana, Fabiano ½-½
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 1-0
Nakamura, Hikaru Bacrot, Etienne 1-0
So, Wesley Carlsen, Magnus 0-1
Topalov, Veselin Grischuk, Alexander 0-1
GCT Paris 2017 Ranking after Round 4 of Rapid games
Wesley So doesn’t look so happy with that loss to Magnus Carlsen
Round 5 match-ups:
Wesley So is now wearing sunglasses for Round 5 against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
What’s with the shades?
Partial Round 5 Results:
Bacrot, Etienne Karjakin, Sergey 0-1
Carlsen, Magnus Topalov, Veselin 1-0
Caruana, Fabiano Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 0-1
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime So, Wesley ½-½
So, it appears it wasn’t that much effective eh?
Still Round 5: Grischuk – Nakamura 0-1.
Great escape by Nakamura there
Ranking after Round 5: Carlsen still leads, followed closely behind by Hikaru Nakamura
It’s not so good performance so far by Fabiano Caruana
Exciting Round 6 match-up: Carlsen vs. Nakamura, Mamedyarov vs. So
Looks like kramnik and aronian is not on this tourney… Anyone between Wesley and magnus is expected to dominate.. And win
day3, round 7,8,9 results?