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FIDE World Championship Candidates 2020 (14)

MVL takes second place in the Candidates on the final day

The playing hall on the final day. Photo ©

The playing hall on the final day. Photo © | https://fide.com

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's Candidates campaign finished with a win against Wang Hao and secured second place on his own half a point behind the winner Ian Nepomniachtchi. MVL played a theoretical Ruy Lopez Berlin against Wang Hao which both players knew. At some stage Wang forgot the precise moves he should play and his position collapsed fairly quickly.

Winner Ian Nepomniachtchi lost a razor sharp King's Indian to Ding Liren, he explained that the losing move 14...Nxd3 was misremembered from a "slightly different line". Ding was just winning after this mistake and got back to 50%.

Anish Giri could still have caught Nepomniachtchi on point but he suffered a disappointing loss to Kirill Alekseenko in what looked like the Russian's best game of the entire event. Giri didn't get much from the opening and was gradually outplayed until he miscalculated something and lost.

The final game to finish was a sharp struggle between Fabiano Caruana and Alexander Grischuk, this was drawn in 65 moves. Grischuk thought he was doing fine until he noticed that there might be chances to finish in 3rd place and starting with 22...Kf6 he started to get into trouble. After this he did defend well and the game was a roughly balanced.

Final Round 14 Standings: 1st Nepomniachtchi 8.5pts, 2nd MVL 8pts, 3rd Giri 7.5pts, 4th Caruana 7.5pts, 5th Ding Liren 7pts, 6th Grischuk 7pts, 7th Alekseenko 5.5pts, 8th Wang Hao 5pts.

FIDE Candidates 2020 Yekaterinburg RUS Sun 15th Mar 2020 - Wed 28th Apr 2021
Leading Final Round 14 Standings:
RkNameTiFEDRtg12345678PtsTB1TB2TB3
1Nepomniachtchi, IanGMRUS2789***0 ½1 ½½ ½1 0½ ½½ 11 18.50555
2Vachier-Lagrave, MaximeGMFRA27581 ½***½ ½½ 01 ½½ 0½ 1½ 180453.75
3Giri, AnishGMNED27760 ½½ ½***½ 1½ 1½ 01 0½ 17.51.5450.5
4Caruana, FabianoGMUSA2820½ ½½ 1½ 0***0 ½½ ½1 ½½ 17.50.5350.5
5Ding, LirenGMCHN27910 10 ½½ 01 ½***½ 1½ 10 ½71.5448.75
6Grischuk, AlexanderGMRUS2777½ ½½ 1½ 1½ ½½ 0***½ 0½ ½70.5250.5
7Alekseenko, KirillGMRUS2696½ 0½ 00 10 ½½ 0½ 1***½ ½5.50238.5
8Wang, HaoGMCHN27630 0½ 0½ 0½ 01 ½½ ½½ ½***50134.5
8 players
Round 14 (April 27, 2021)
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - Wang, Hao 1-0 29 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Caruana, Fabiano - Grischuk, Alexander ½-½ 65 B40 Sicilian Classical
Giri, Anish - Alekseenko, Kirill 0-1 56 E01 Catalan
Ding, Liren - Nepomniachtchi, Ian 1-0 35 E60 King's Indian without Nc3

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