Live from the World Chess Hall of Fame, the 7th Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz is the fourth of five legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Six of the Tour players are joined by four wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today are the final three rounds of the rapid round robin. Join GMs Peter Svidler & Yasser Seirawan, IM Tania Sachdev, & WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.
2023.11.16
GrandChessTour.org
RAPID ROUND 7 | 25 Min. Incr. 10 Sec.
| GAME = 2 PTS
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
(7) vs. Ray Robson (8)
Alireza Firouzja
(6) vs.
Liem Le (7)
Anish Giri (7) vs. Jeffery Xiong (5)
Fabiano Caruana (6) vs. Sam Sevian (5)
Ian Nepomniachtchi
(5) vs. Wesley So
(4)
RAPID ROUND 8 | 25 Min. Incr. 10 Sec.
| GAME = 2 PTS
Anish Giri
vs. Fabiano Caruana
Jeffery Xiong vs. Wesley So
Sam Sevian
vs. Alireza Firouzja
Ray Robson vs. Ian Nepomniachtchi
Liem Le
vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
RAPID ROUND 9 | 25 Min. Incr. 10 Sec. | GAME = 2 PTS
Fabiano Caruana vs. Jeffery Xiong
Ian Nepomniachtchi
vs. Liem Le
Alireza Firouzja vs. Anish Giri
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave vs.
Sam Sevian
Wesley So
vs. Ray Robson
2:22:00
Sachdev has a terrible accent
Finally the saint Louis chess club gets it right by bringing sachdev in. She’s the best
Wow Peter Svidler ! Cool…..
Pretty annoying that Peter won’t have the engine on.
goated commentary team
Does anyone find the Indian woman unnecessarily loud? You know like she feels like she is irrelevant or something? Or she has something to prove? This could be seen as quite rude to some people, especially when somebody of Yasser's status is next to her.
So happy to see Tania here!
Peter on the board is really instructive.
I see the Sachdev psycophants are out in force in every single video and chat she appears in. It's pretty bad when your unpopular commentator is the topic of conversation instead of the players. She is divisive and has now become a complete distraction, nobody is discussing chess, time she was dropped.
Is it necessary tanya is commentator at this level??
Why are they using Lichess UI?
Having a strong GM like Svidler in the commentary is such a pleasure to heard and learn from.
Fabi looks about 16 in the cutaway interviews.
Please stop using engine all the time. We have three great players there. Let them make the analysis.