6 December 2017

First Decisive Game Played in London

Caruana defeats Karjakin in round 4 of LCC.

Photo by Lennart Ootes
Photo by Lennart Ootes
In round 4 of the London Chess Classic, the final leg of the Grand Chess Tour, Fabiano Caruana outplayed Sergey Karjakin with black pieces. The games Nakamura - Nepomniachtchi, So - Adams, Vachier-Lagrave - Carlsen, and Anand - Aronian were drawn.



Standings after round 4:

1. Fabiano Caruana - 2.5 
2-9. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Michael Adams, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian - 2 
10. Sergey Karjakin - 1.5.

Round 5 pairings:

Nepomniachtchi - Karjakin, Caruana - Anand, Aronian - Vachier-Lagrave, Carlsen - So, Adams - Nakamura.

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