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According to chess24, it took him 1 hour and 12 minutes to play the move that Magnus thought was obvious

I know Grischuk has form for this sort of thing, but I really can't see how he benefits from burning so much time

Grischuk has played another French

Pete Doggers round 9 report "It was very important for me to win this game to realistically stay in the race, otherwise it would have been really hard," said Giri. He reminded everyone that he drew all his games in the 2016 Candidates tournament, and added: "It's not enough that the tournament goes...

Google translate gives me

Vladimir Kramnik: “To earn the right to a world championship match, it’s not enough just to play chess well, you must also serve chess. I don’t have the feeling that Vachier-Lagrave worked hard this year and that he is a professional in his business”.

TWIC

Round 9 standings: 1 Nepomniachtchi 5.5pts 2 Caruana 5pts 3 MVL 5pts 4 Giri 5pts 5 Alekseenko 4pts 6 Wang Hao 4pts 7 Grischuk 4pts 8 Ding Liren 3.5pts

Round 10 pairings Wednesday 21st April 12pm BST: Caruana-Ding, MVL-Giri, Wang Hao-Grischuk Nepomniachtchi-Alekseenko.

Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:06 pm

Being a pendant, I'd say Giri is most likely to produce artwork showing Dutch towns. (Nick means Jean not Jan )

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:08 pm

Nepo of course has a win against Giri which will loom large if tie-breaks seem likely

Yes, though he's lost to MVL, who in turn has lost to Caruana

Long way to go yet

Nepo 5.5
Caruana, Giri 5 with MVL looking like joining them

Giri has won

Nepo 5.5
Giri 5

Chess Mind with analysis

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:07 pm

Grischuk the only one still without a win after today.

And now everyone has lost a game

Round 8 reports from TWIC and Pete Doggers

And Grischuk's provocation strategy pays off, albeit not for him but for Alekseenko. Giri is the only one of the top five to have White tomorrow: if he's going to make a move this would seem to be the time for it. Or Wang Hao, if Giri over presses? Svidler's comment about Alekseenko was He could en...

Bit surprising they followed suit, albeit Nepo is in the lead of the tournament

Half right; Grischuk has played the French, is that a surprise?

MVL has played the Najdorf as expected