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
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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
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GCT Paris 2017 Ranking after Round 4 of Rapid games
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Wesley So doesn’t look so happy with that loss to Magnus Carlsen
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Round 5 match-ups:
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Wesley So is now wearing sunglasses for Round 5 against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
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What’s with the shades?
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Partial Round 5 Results:
Bacrot, Etienne Karjakin, Sergey 0-1
Carlsen, Magnus Topalov, Veselin 1-0
Caruana, Fabiano Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 0-1
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Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime So, Wesley ½-½
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So, it appears it wasn’t that much effective eh?
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Still Round 5: Grischuk – Nakamura 0-1.
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Great escape by Nakamura there
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Ranking after Round 5: Carlsen still leads, followed closely behind by Hikaru Nakamura
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It’s not so good performance so far by Fabiano Caruana
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Exciting Round 6 match-up: Carlsen vs. Nakamura, Mamedyarov vs. So
Nirde O Robledo
Looks like kramnik and aronian is not on this tourney… Anyone between Wesley and magnus is expected to dominate.. And win
RC Catangay
day3, round 7,8,9 results?