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Grandmaster Wesley So drew all his four games including one against recent tormentor and fellow United States bet Hikaru Nakamura in the fifth round to keep his grip of the lead with five others and stay in quarterfinal contention in the Airthings Masters of the Champions Chess Tour Monday.
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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.
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Airthings Masters, Day 3
The first two days of the Airthings Masters saw a lot of draws and a cautious approach by most players but the third day of the preliminary tournament was dramatic because the players at the bottom of the table needed to take risks to finish among the first eight.
Round 9
Daniil Dubov had good chances to qualify with safe play but he kept true to his usual risky style - which backfired in round 9 against Ian Nepomniachtchi.
Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had both been struggling in the first two days of the preliminary but in their direct encounter in round 9 Giri scored an important victory.