After having suffered an outing in the semi-finals at the opening event in Weissenhaus, Magnus Carlsen rebounded in style in the Parisian leg of the Grand Chelem Freestyle tour, beating Hikaru Nakamura in the final by a score of 1.5-0.5.
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After having failed closely to Weissenhaus with a defeat in the semi-final of shock against Vincent Keymer, Magnus Carlsen rebounded in style to win the Parisian leg of the Grand Slam tour of Freestyle chess, beating Hikaru Nakamura in the final on Monday. Carlsen had arrived in the French capital, seeking to prove a point after shouting in the first event of the tour, and stamped his authority by sailing towards victory without a single shot during the eight -day event.
After the disappointment of not having reached the semi-finals of Weissenhaus in February, Nakamura went to the final of the “City of Light” to finish finalist. The American Grand Master could have taken the successful final against the world n ° 1 in equality if he had not made a mistake during his 35th blow in match 1 on Sunday. Carlsen just needed a draw on Monday to get the title, and did it easily.
Caruana, on the other hand, avenged his defeat against Keymer in the final of Weissenhaus by defeating the German general manager in the third-place qualifying series while Arigaisi finished fifth during the beginnings of Freestyle chess after having beat the favorite at home Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
How many money in Carlsen and the other players will bring back to the Maison du Grand Chelem in Paris?
The money price is the same in each of the five events of the inaugural tour of the Grand Chelem of the Freestyle chess – a total of $ 750,000, the majority of these funds going to those participating in the main event and a small fraction distributed between the members of the club of freestyle players.
The break in money prize, however, differs between Weissenhaus and Paris due to the number of participants, the latter has two other players.
The winner of the two events won $ 200,000 and the $ 140,000 finalist. After Keymer and Caruana in Weissenhaus, it was Carlsen and Nakamura who won the biggest remuneration vouchers after having finished the first and second in Paris respectively.
Here is a break in silver price allocated for each event of the Grand Chelem Freestyle tour:
1st: $ 200,000
2nd: $ 140,000
3rd: $ 100,000
4th: $ 60,000
5th: $ 50,000
6th: $ 40,000
7th: $ 30,000
8th: $ 20,000
9th: $ 15,000
10th: $ 10,000
11th: $ 7,500
12th: $ 7,500
What is the final ranking of the Parisian leg of the Grand Slam tour of freestyle chess?
Here is the final ranking in the Grand Chelem of the Freestyle Paris chess:
1st: Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
2nd: Hikaru Nakamura (USA)
3rd: Fabiano Caruana (USA)
4th: Vincent Keymer (Germany)
5th: Arjun Erigaisi (India)
6th: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)
7th: Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia)
8th: Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Ouzbékistan)
9th: R Praggnanandhaa (India)
10th: Richard Report (Hungary)
11th (shared): D GUKESH (India) and Vidit Gujrathi (India)
