Giri leads, with Carlsen and Anton in hot pursuit after Day 1 of the #SkillingOpen. The players are fighting to finish in the Top 8 and reach the knockout stage after two more days of chess

Anish Giri once again leads the pack going into Day 3 of the #SkillingOpen after Magnus suffered a setback against Karjakin in the final round of the day! The Top 8 after tomorrow qualify for the knockout stages

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Anish Giri is the sole leader again after Sergey Karjakin beats Magnus Carlsen in the final round of the day!
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After a thrilling final round the #SkillingOpen quarterfinals will be:

Carlsen vs. Giri
Nakamura vs. MVL
So vs. Radjabov
Nepo vs. Aronian

Carlsen (vs. Giri), MVL (vs. Nakamura), Aronian (vs. Nepomniachtchi) and Radjabov (vs. So) took the lead on Day 1 of the #SkillingOpen quarterfinals! Full report:

Congrats to Magnus Carlsen, Yan Nepomniachtchi, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura on making it to the semifinals of the #skillingopen tournament!

It's Carlsen vs. Nepo and So vs. Nakamura in the #SkillingOpen semi-finals, starting tomorrow!

It was a great fight today from Anish Giri, but not quite enough! There's plenty of time to hit back, as this is just the beginning - the Champions Chess Tour action continues for a full season until September 2021 🍿🍿🍿

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For the first time in the #SkillingOpen the 1st day of a match has ended 2:2 (after 4 wins for White!). If tomorrow's mini-match were to be drawn 2:2 we'd go to tiebreaks:

Congratulations to Wesley So on crashing Magnus Carlsen's 30th birthday party to win the #SkillingOpen, the 1st tournament on the $1.5 million Champions Chess Tour!

Finally, mercifully, it's over, with Hikaru Nakamura beating Vladimir Fedoseev 21.5:5.5: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/speed-chess-2020-nakamura-fedoseev/3/1/9
Hikaru will now get a chance to take revenge for the #SkillingOpen when he plays Wesley So in the #SpeedChess semi-finals!

Tomorrow it's Carlsen vs. So, a repeat of the #SkillingOpen final, after a thrilling Armageddon win for Magnus. The 3rd place match will be Radjabov vs. MVL:

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