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.
The three overnight leaders remained in their shared position on the top after the final day of the rapid tournament. Coming up next are the blitz rounds.
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.
Rapid final standings:
1-3 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2747, Alireza Firouzja FRA 2731 and Ian Nepomniachtchi FID 2753 – 11
4 Levon Aronian USA 2754 – 10
5-7 Leinier Dominguez USA 2693, Wesley So USA 2735 and Hikaru Nakamura USA 2746 – 9
8-9 Fabiano Caruana USA 2777 and Nodirbek Abdusattorov UZB 2732 – 8
10 Praggnanadhaa R IND 2688 – 4
Day 4 of the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz continues Thursday, August 15, 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.
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