2018 Cup Chronicle Issue 3

The fight for first place and the ticket to the Grand Chess Tour finals in London is getting tighter as now there is a four-way tie for first place. After Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Magnus Carlsen, and Levon Aronian drew their games, the door was wide open for Alexander Grischuk to enter the leaderboard. The Russian Grandmaster delivered the only decisive result of the day by defeating Hikaru Nakamura in a 6.5 hour battle. With each round, the competition is getting more tense as the players fight until the last minute on their clocks for those GCT points.