Fabiano Caruana (9/14) of the United States defeated Alexander Grischuk (6.5/14) of Russia to win the FIDE Berlin Candidates Chess Tournament and earned the right to meet Magnus Carlsen to contend for the World Championship title.
In a hard fought match that was even through the first time control Caruana eventually exploited weaknesses in Grischuk’s structure to a win by resignation on move 69.
Caruana will be the first US FIDE representative since the (in)famous Gata Kamsky in the early 90s.
2018 FIDE Candidates' Tournament | Final Standings
| # |
Fed |
Name |
Rtg |
Perf |
Pts |
| 1 |
|
Caruana,F |
2784 |
2887 |
9.0/14 |
| 2 |
|
Mamedyarov,S |
2809 |
2832 |
8.0/14 |
| 3 |
|
Karjakin,S |
2763 |
2838 |
8.0/14 |
| 4 |
|
Ding Liren |
2769 |
2812 |
7.5/14 |
| 5 |
|
Grischuk,A |
2767 |
2764 |
6.5/14 |
| 6 |
|
Kramnik,V |
2800 |
2759 |
6.5/14 |
| 7 |
|
So,W |
2799 |
2734 |
6.0/14 |
| 8 |
|
Aronian,L |
2794 |
2655 |
4.5/14 |
*A player gets 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw, and 0 pts for a loss.
In a double round-robin tourney each player plays the others twice, once with white and once with black.
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