Airthings Masters: Carlsen Joins Leaders
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The games of the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters can be found here as part of our live events platform. IM Levy Rozman and IM Anna Rudolf are providing daily commentary on GM Hikaru Nakamura s Twitch channel starting from 6:00 a.m. Pacific / 15:00 Central Europe.
A packed group of six players half the field is sharing the lead with a modest plus-one score. Although the first day saw seven decisive games out of 24 encounters, the second day had just three. The drawing percentage is now 79.2 percent.
With just the top eight qualifying for the knockout phase, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Pentala Harikrishna (on 3.5/8) as well as Anish Giri and David Anton (3/8) are currently in trouble while two Russian GMs, Alexander Grischuk and Ian Nepomniachtchi (4/8), are in the danger zone.