Freestyle Final Flules Sights failure finals: Magnus Carlsen holds Hikaru Nakamura in a draw in match 2 of their blockbuster final to defeat the American GM 1.5-0.5 and win the Paris Grand Chem-Chee tour of the Freestyle. Fabiano Caruana finished third while Arigaisi and Ian Nepomniachtchi finish fifth and seventh respectively.
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Final of the Freestyle Paris Finals failure final: Magnus Carlsen is crowned winner of the Parisian leg of the Grand Chelem tour of the Freestyle chess in Paris after having defeated Hikaru Nakamura 1.5-0.5 in the final of “El Chessico”, the world n ° 1 holding the world n ° 2 to a draw 2 on Monday. Fabiano Caruana and Arjun Erigaisi also collect zero matches on Monday to finish the third and fifth respectively while Ian Nepomniachtchi beat Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2-0 to finish seventh.
Freestyle Chess Paris Finals Highlights, match results
Finals of the Freestyle Paris failure final: follow the live updates and the results of the match of the last day of the Paris leg while Magnus Carlsen faces Hikaru Nakamura on match 2.
Final of the Freestyle Paris Finals failure final: Magnus Carlsen took an advance of 1-0 on Hikaru Nakamura in the Freestyle Chess Paris final after having won match 1 in 36 movements with the white pieces. Nakamura seemed to guide the match to a draw but failed with a late error that presented the victory to Carlsen. Nakamura faces a situation to do or do in match 2 and will have to win this in order to take the final in the liaison break.
Elsewhere in the tournament, Fabiano Caruana defeated Vincent Keymer in 3rd place playoffs, while Arigaisi took over Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the battle for fifth place. Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the 7th-8th place playoffs. Like Carlsen, Caruana, Erigaisi and Nepomniachtchi are a draw to win their respective matches.
The winner of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2024 Paris will be awarded a cash price of $ 200,000.
The Paris leg is the second event of the inaugural tour of the Grand Slam of the Freestyle chess, which started in February at the Weissenhaus Private Nature Luxury Resort.
The German Grand Master Vincent Keymer struck his weight to win the event, beating Carlsen in the semi-finals before defeating Caruana in the final to go to the top of the tour ranking.
