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Rapid: Wednesday 20th June to Friday 22nd June
Blitz: Saturday 23rd June and Sunday 24th June

Play starts at 1300 BST on Wednesday 20th June, Friday 22nd June and Saturday 23rd June and at 1100 BST on Thursday 21st June and Sunday 24th June. The early start on Thursday 21st June is to avoid a clash with the France v Peru World Cup game (kick-off 1600 BST).

David Sedgwick
Chief Arbiter
Grand Chess Tour 2018

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:05 pm

The early start on Thursday 21st June is to avoid a clash with the France v Peru World Cup game (kick-off 1600 BST).

The external relayers do not seem to have picked this up.

There's a nice line in the round 4 Aronian game:

[Event "Paris"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2018.06.21"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Mamedyarov"]
[Black "Aronian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E36"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[SourceDate "2018.06.21"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 d5 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bxf6 Qxf6 9. Nf3 c6 10. h4 dxc4 11. g4 Qe7 12. g5 h5 13. Qxc4 Nd7 14. e3 c5 15. Be2 b6 16. dxc5 Nxc5 17. b4 Nd7 18. Rd1 a5 19. O-O axb4 20. Qxb4 Nc5 21. Qxb6 Ba6 22. Bxa6 Rxa6 23. Qb5 Rfa8 24. Rc1 Ra5 25. Qc6 e5 26. g6 Ne6 27. Nxe5 fxg6 28. Rfd1 Kh7 29. Nf3 Qf6 30. Rd6 R8a6 31. Qd7 (31. Qxa6 Rxa6 32. Rxe6 Rxe6 33. Ng5+ Kh6 34. Rc8 Re8 35. Rxe8 Qxf2+ 36. Kxf2 {Stalemate!}) 31... Rxd6 32. Qxd6 Qxf3 33. Qxe6 Rf5 34. Qa2 Qg4+ 35. Kf1 Qh3+ 36. Ke1 Qh1+ 37. Kd2 Rxf2+ 38. Kd3 Qxh4 39. Qd5 Qa4 40. Rc3 Qd1+ 41. Kc4 Rd2 42. Qc6 h4 43. e4 Qf1+ 44. Kb3 h3 45. Qc4 Qxc4+ 46. Kxc4 h2 47. Rh3+ Kg8 48. Kc3 Ra2 49. Kb3 Rf2 50. a4 g5 51. a5 g4 0-1 [pgn]

Vishy Anand explains his win over Vladimir Kramnik in Paris and also reveals how seven grandmasters missed their train from Leuven to Paris.

Final rankings after the rapid & blitz:

1 Nakamura, Hikaru 23/36 2803
2 Karjakin, Sergey 21½/36 2785
3 So, Wesley 21/36 2783
4 Aronian, Levon 20/36 2789
5 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 19½/36 2794
6 Anand, Viswanathan 17/36 2775
7 Grischuk, Alexander 16/36 2789
8 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 15½/36 2788
9 Caruana, Fabiano 13½/36 2790
10 Kramnik, Vladimir 13/36 2787