Chessable Masters: Vachier-Lagrave leads after four rounds of play

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the third event of the million-dollar Magnus Carlsen Chess tour.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen and 11 more of the world's best chess players are competing in the Chessable Masters, the third event in the $1million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour.

Good evening! Hello and welcome to Sportstar 's highlights of the third event of the $1million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour.

 

On Saturday, in what turned out to a tale of two debutants, P. Harikrishna slumped to the bottom of the Group A table while Russia’s Vladimir Artemiev rose to the top on the opening day of the Chessable Masters.

Hari, who started with a loss to Artemiev, let Carlsen off the hook and lost again. Outplayed by Daniil Dubov in the third round, Hari gathered his wits to hold Hikaru Nakamura and then scored a confidence-building victory over Alexander Grischuk.

 

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THE CONTESTANTS:

Name	Country	Age	Rapid rating	World ranking	Blitz rating	World ranking	Classical rating	World ranking
GROUP A
Magnus Carlsen	Norway	29	2881	1	2887	2	2863	2
Alexander Grischuk	Russia	36	2774	7	2799	14	2777	14
Hikaru Nakamura	USA	32	2829	4	2900	1	2736	18
P. Harikrishna	India	34	2690	51	2663	65	2791	26
Vladislav Artemiev	Russia	22	2769	13	2783	12	2716	29
Daniil Dubov	Russia	24	2770	12	2720	32	2699	38
GROUP B
Fabiano Caruana	USA	27	2773	11	2711	35	2835	2
Ding Liren	China	27	2836	3	2788	8	2791	3
Ian Nepomniachtchi	Russia	29	2778	9	2785	10	2784	4
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France	29	2860	2	2822	3	2778	5
Teimour Radjabov	Azerbaijan	33	2758	15	2757	18	2765	9
Anish Giri	Netherlands	25	2731	24	2752	22	2764	10