25 June 2017

Magnus Carlsen Wins Paris Grand Chess Tour

He defeated MVL in 2-game playoff. 

Photo by Lennart Ootes
Photo by Lennart Ootes
The Paris Grand Chess Tour finished in the capital of France. After both rapid and blitz tournaments the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave shared the 1st place with 24 points out of 36. The Top 5 is: 3. Hikaru Nakamura - 23, 4. Alexander Grischuk - 22, 5. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - 20, 6.Sergey Karjakin - 18.

According to the Regulations, the winners played a playoff match, which finished with the victory of Magnus Carlsen 1.5 to 0.5.

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