2019 Cup Chronicles Issue 4

There was finally a shake up in the standings today, as Fabiano Caruana defeated Levon Aronian. The American joins Viswanathan Anand in the lead as the rest of the games were drawn. Caruana’s win is the second decisive result in the first four rounds. Anand was on track to extend his lead in the tournament, but the calculations required for him to do so were very computerlike—not easy for a human to find. Tomorrow, both Anand and Caruana will have the black pieces against Maxime VachierLagrave and Wesley So, respectively.