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They are Carlsen-Dubov, MVL-So, Nakamura-Aronian and Radjabov-Nepomniachtchi in the quarterfinals of the Airthings Masters after an exciting finish in the preliminary stage where heavyweights Alexander Grischuk and Anish Giri were eliminated by the best of margins. Grischuk missed a win and then lost a draw finish to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, while Anish Giri lived to regret having done his best to beat Hikaru Nakamura. In the end, a draw would have been enough for him to clinch a place in the quarterfinals. (LATER)
You can replay all Airthings Masters foreplay using the selector below; If you watch just one game, make it So 1-0 Dubov from the final round, with some wonderful tactics at the end.
Relive the spectacular final round of the preliminaries with commentary from Kaja Snare, Jovanka Houska and David Howell …
… And Tania Sachdev and Peter Leko.
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The final standings, when the dust settled, saw Carlsen, So and Nakamura tied for first place, with Magnus taking first place in the tiebreaker having won the mini-league among the three players by beating Hikaru in the Round. 10.
The drama, however, was at the bottom, when surprisingly it turned out that -1, or 5/11, was the cutoff score for the rankings. MVL, who appeared to be out of contention, was suddenly able to take seventh place after beating Grischuk with the black pieces, condemning the Russian to finish 10th after all other games between players on 11/5 had been tied. Daniil Dubov, who started the day in 1st place, only outscored in the tiebreak to score more wins (2) than Harikrishna (0).
The last four were eliminated, although after David Anton beat Levon Aronian in the final round, the gap between 1st and last place was only 2 points.
“You can play like an idiot, but you still get the gift of playing Magnus,” said Daniil Dubov after the first day of the event and in fact now he will be able to play two mini-matches against the World Champion, as the winner of the preliminaries he is paired against the eighth classified.
Once again things have worked out perfectly as we are on our way to either Magnus facing Wesley So, or Hikaru Nakamura (again, they are seeded to play a semi-final, like the Skilling Open), in the final.
Of course, Daniil Dubov, Levon Aronian, and MVL (not to mention Radjabov and Nepomniachtchi!) May have something to say about it.
We return at 15:00 CET on Tuesday for the quarterfinals, with Day 1 consisting of a mini-match of four 15 + 10 games. Four more games will be played on Wednesday, and only if the match score is level. in 1: 1 we will get two blitz games 5 + 3 in a row, if necessary, by Armageddon, where White has 5 minutes against 4 Black but a draw. you will see the player with the black pieces reach the semi-finals.
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Check back later for player quotes and analysis from the last day of the preliminaries!
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