Grand-Prix 2017 Events Venues and Dates confirmed

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Mamedyarov will finish with a rating over 2800 if he draws or wins today. Though I am sure he will be thinking more about getting a big haul of Grand Prix points and his placing in this tournament.

[Mick Norris]

Mamedyarov will finish with a rating over 2800 if he draws or wins today. Though I am sure he will be thinking more about getting a big haul of Grand Prix points and his placing in this tournament.

Yes, a draw puts Shak ahead of MVL in the race for 1 of the 2 Candidates spots; a win would almost see him qualified, but a loss would put him behind MVL of course

I'm guessing as MVL had a long game yesterday, and doesn't seem to think he has been playing well, a quick draw is possibly the result

[LawrenceCooper]

Yes, a draw puts Shak ahead of MVL in the race for 1 of the 2 Candidates spots; a win would almost see him qualified, but a loss would put him behind MVL of course

I'm guessing as MVL had a long game yesterday, and doesn't seem to think he has been playing well, a quick draw is possibly the result

Drawn in 16 moves.

[Mick Norris]

Giri appears to be going for it against Grischuk

[LawrenceCooper]

Yes, a draw puts Shak ahead of MVL in the race for 1 of the 2 Candidates spots; a win would almost see him qualified, but a loss would put him behind MVL of course

I'm guessing as MVL had a long game yesterday, and doesn't seem to think he has been playing well, a quick draw is possibly the result

Drawn in 16 moves.

Harikrishna-Radjabov, Vallejo Pons-Nepomniachtchi & Salem-Hammer have also halved out.

[LawrenceCooper]

Ding wins to finish first outright.

[LawrenceCooper]

Hou Yifan also won and Nakamura=Svidler was a draw, just Giri-Grischuk left.

[Mick Norris]

MVL interview

He misses the next GP in Geneva, and says he needs to win the final one in Mallorca

[John McKenna]

Ding wins to finish first outright.

Dilly Ding, dinner gong!
Giri & Grischuk to draw before long?

[LawrenceCooper]

Ding wins to finish first outright.

Dilly Ding, dinner gong!
Giri & Grischuk to draw before long?

Yep, draw, tournament over.

[Mick Norris]

GP standings

Peter Doggers report

[Chris Rice]

Final round photos from Anastasiya Karlovich. Impressive performance rating of 2770 for Hou Yifan who clearly is happier playing the men.

[Mick Norris]

MVL missing Geneva to play Dortmund

Any clue who is playing Geneva? I know that Giri, Svidler, Radjabov, Jakovenko, Eljanov, Li Chao, Rapport, Harikrishna, Gelfand, Aronian, Inarkiev & Riazantsev must be playing both Geneva & Mallorca (as they have each missed 1 of the first 2 GPs)

[John McKenna]

MVL missing Geneva to play Dortmund

Any clue who is playing Geneva? I know that Giri, Svidler, Radjabov, Jakovenko, Eljanov, Li Chao, Rapport, Harikrishna, Gelfand, Aronian, Inarkiev & Riazantsev must be playing both Geneva & Mallorca (as they have each missed 1 of the first 2 GPs)

Mick, according to World Chess (in addition to the 12 players you correctly listed, above, who will play in both) the following will play -

Geneva (July 06-15)

Adams, Grischuk, Hou, Mamedyarov, Nepomniachtchi & Saleh

Palma de Mallorca (Nov. 16-25)

Ding, Hammer, Nakamura, Tomashevsky, Vachier-Lagrave & Vallejo

John

[Mick Norris]

Thank you; I looked and couldn't find anything

MVL & Ding will know what they need to do; although Shak could be qualified by then; Grischuk is the other key player at Geneva