SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz Croatia, part of the GrandChessTour 2024, is taking place from 10-14th July at The Westin Hotel in Zagreb, Croatia.
This event features seven full-tour players and three wildcard players. The total prize fund is $175,000.
After two days and six rounds of rapid play GM Fabiano Caruana, still fresh from his victory in Bucharest, is leading the race with 9 points, 1 points ahead of Wesley So (2 points per rapid game).
Rapid round 6 standings:
1 Fabiano Caruana USA 2738 – 9
2 Wesley So USA 2722 – 8
3-5 Gukesh D IND 2647, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2747 and Alireza Firouzja FRA 2724 – 7
6-7 Ian Nepomniachtchi FID 2754 and Levon Aronian USA 2750 – 6
8 Anish Giri NED 2679 – 5
9 Ivan Saric CRO 2614 – 3
10 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2701 – 2
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.
Live commentary is provided with Grandmasters Yasser Seirawan, Evegeny Miroshnichenko, Cristian Chirila and International Master Jovanka Houska on the Saint Louis Chess Clubโs Twitch & YouTube channels.
Video review by Sara Herman:
