16 June 2018
First Day of Your Next Move Blitz Takes Place in Leuven
Sergey Karjakin shares second place in combined standings.
Photo by Lennart Ootes
On June 15th, the first circle of the blitz section of the Your Next Move Grand Chess Tour was played in Leuven.
Standings after 9 rounds:
1-3. Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Sergey Karjakin - 5.5
4-5. Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura - 5
6-9. Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wesley So - 4
10. Fabiano Caruana - 2.5
Combined standings:
1. Wesley So - 18
2-3. Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin - 16.5
4. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - 15.5
5. Hikaru Nakamura - 15
6. Alexander Grischuk - 13
7. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - 12
8. Viswanathan Anand - 10
9. Fabiano Caruana - 9.5
10. Anish Giri - 9
The participants will play final 9 rounds of blitz on June 16th.
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