Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura in a successful final in Paris to be crowned champion after failing Weissenhaus while Arigaisi impressed the beginnings, finishing fourth at the end of the round of the Round and fifth in the final classification of the second event.
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The Parisian leg of the Grand Chelem Freestyle tour ended on Monday with a dream final between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, and all that was needed was a mistake to help the first victory by a score of 1.5-0.5 and win the prize of $ 200,000. Nakamura was doing a decent job by directing the match towards a dead end while playing with black pieces in match 1 Sunday when her decision to advance her bishop in her 35th decision turned out to be his loss.
Although he played with white pieces in match 2 on Monday, Nakamura could not take up a serious challenge against Carlsen while the world n ° 1 sealed his triumph with a comfortable draw.
Fabiano Caruana and Vincent Keymer were the finalists of the first stage of the Grand Chelem tour in Weissenhaus in February, the latter finishing a triumph of fairy tale in the final after having won an astonishing victory on Carlsen in the semi-finals.
Caruana, however, avenged the defeat in the final of Weissenhaus by defeating the German Grand Master 1.5-0.5. Like Carlsen, he won the match 1 on Sunday, although he played with black pieces, and finished his triumph with a draw the next day.
Arjun Erigaisi turned out to be the most impressive of the four Indians in action in the Grand Chelem in Paris, finishing fifth after defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave after his defeat in the quarter-final against Nakamura.
Erigaisi had previously obtained a finish among the first four at the end of the round scene, beating Carlsen and Caruana along the way, and seems to have taken the Freestyle format like Duck To Water.
How the triumph of Carlsen affects the overall ranking of the Grand Slam failures
With his triumph in the “city of light”, Carlsen exceeded Keymer at the top of the classification of the chelem Freestyle chelem with 40 points, three more than the 20 -year -old German. Caruana and Nakamura are respectively third and fourth, both of which have finished among the first four of Weissenhaus and Paris.
Erigaisi, meanwhile, goes to seventh place after having collected 10 points with its fifth place. D GUKESH, on the other hand, remains 11th with four points – all coming from his eighth place in Weissenhaus. Points are awarded positions 1 to 10, during this time, Gukesh and Vidit Gujrathi failed to collect a single point for their 11th shot in Paris.
Here is the ranking of the Tour of the Grand Slam Freestyle updated at the end of the Paris leg with the total price earned so far:
1. Magnus Carlsen – 40 points – $ 300,000
2. Vincent Keymer – 37 points – $ 260,000
3. Fabiano Caruana – 33 points – $ 240,000
4. Hikaru Nakamura – 28 points – $ 190,000
5. Nodirbek Abdusattorov – 12 points – $ 60,000
5. Javokhir Sindarov – 12 points – $ 60,000
7. Arjun Erigaisi – 10 points – $ 50,000
8. Maxime Vachier -Lagrave – 8 points – $ 40,000
9. Ian Nepomniachtchi – 6 points – $ 30,000
9. Alireza Firouzja – 6 points – $ 30,000
11. D GUKESH – 4 points – $ 20,000
12. R Praggnanandhaa – 2 points – $ 12,500
12. Levon Aronian – 2 points – $ 12,500
14. Richard report – 1 point – $ 7,500
14. Vladimir Fedoseev – 1 point – $ 7,500
