The third and final speed event of the Grand Chess Tour 2024, Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Chess Tournament, is taking place from 12-16th August at The World Chess Hall of Fame in Saint Louis, USA.
This event features seven full-tour players and three wildcard players. The total prize fund is $175,000.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave from France won two games and conceded one draw to top the standings with 5 points (2 points per rapid game).
Rapid round 3 standings:
1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2747 – 5
2-4 Ian Nepomniachtchi FID 2753, Leinier Dominguez USA 2693 and Levon Aronian USA 2754 – 4
5-7 Hikaru Nakamura USA 2746, Nodirbek Abdusattorov UZB 2732 and Alireza Firouzja FRA 2731 – 3
8 Wesley So USA 2735 – 2
9-10 Fabiano Caruana USA 2777 and Praggnanadhaa R IND 2688 – 1
The event will be played in 9 round-robin rapid rounds (2 points/game), and 9 double round-robin blitz rounds (1 point/game), and the cumulative sum of the points will determine the Winner of the tournament.
Fabiano Caruana won the previous two events, Superbet Chess Classic Romania and Zagreb SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz.
Day 2 of the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz continues Tuesday, August 13, with live commentary from GM’s Yasser Seirawan, Peter Svidler, Cristian Chirila and IM Nazi Paikidze starting at 1:00pm CDT. Tune in to the Saint Louis Chess Club’s Twitch & YouTube channels.
Day 1 Recap by IM Kostya Kavutskiy:
