Will Fabiano Caruana win Superbet Classic for the second consecutive year?
Fabiano Caruana (USA) drew with R Praggnanandhaa to maintain his sole lead at Grand Chess Tour Superbet Classic 2024. The World no.3 now has a chance to win this tournament for the second year in-a-row. He will face Anish Giri (NED) in the final round. D Gukesh shared the point with Giri in the penultimate round. The World Championship Challenger came up with a great preparation. However, it was not enough to subdue the Netherlands no.1. The longest game of the round lasted for 84 moves between Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) and Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU). It will be Wesley So (USA) vs Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa vs Alireza Firouzja (FRA) in the final round. Round 9 starts today at 2 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST. Photo: Grand Chess Tour/Lennart Ootes
Calm before storm?
Once again, all five games of the penultimate round ended in draws.
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Schedule and Format
Superbet Chess Classic will have one round played each day from 26th June to 5th July 2024. Each round starts at 3 p.m. local time, 5:30 p.m. IST. Except the last round on 5th July which will start at 2 p.m. local time, 4:30 p.m. IST. The sole rest day is on Monday 1st July. It will be a 10-player Round Robin event. Time control will be 120 minutes KO + 30 sec./move.
Prize
The total prize fund of each Classical event is the double of Rapid and Blitz events - US$ 350000.
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Round 8 results
Standings after Round 8
Round 9 pairings
| Bo. | No. | Rtg | Name | Result | Name | Rtg | No. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 2745 | GM | Giri, Anish | GM | Caruana, Fabiano | 2805 | 10 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 2757 | GM | So, Wesley | GM | Gukesh, Dommaraju | 2763 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 7 | 2680 | GM | Deac, Bogdan-Daniel | GM | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 2732 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 8 | 2770 | GM | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | GM | Abdusattorov, Nodirbek | 2766 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 9 | 2747 | GM | Praggnanandhaa, Rameshbabu | GM | Firouzja, Alireza | 2737 | 1 |
