FIDE World Rapid and Blitz December 25-30, 2021

[JustinHorton]

Unmitigated disaster for Dubov, lost out of the opening with White against Firouzja. Nevertheless he is part of a six-way tie on 14 coming into the last round, the other four players being Aronian, Artemiev, Duda and MVL, half a point ahead of Carlsen (and only Carlsen).

[LawrenceCooper]

All to play for in the last round:

Round 21 on 2021/12/30 at 18:00
Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No.
1 8 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2787 14 13½ GM Carlsen Magnus *) NOR 2892 1
2 6 GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof POL 2792 14 14 GM Artemiev Vladislav CFR 2830 3
3 4 GM Firouzja Alireza FRA 2810 14 14 GM Aronian Levon USA 2740 15
4 14 GM Dubov Daniil CFR 2749 14 13 GM Giri Anish NED 2778 9

Rank after Round 20
Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 15 GM Aronian Levon USA 2740 14,0 232,0 240,5 2676 0,0
2 14 GM Dubov Daniil CFR 2749 14,0 230,0 238,5 2665 0,0
3 3 GM Artemiev Vladislav CFR 2830 14,0 223,0 230,5 2638 0,0
4 6 GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof POL 2792 14,0 222,0 229,5 2630 0,0
5 8 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2787 14,0 220,5 228,0 2647 0,0
6 4 GM Firouzja Alireza FRA 2810 14,0 214,5 222,0 2602 0,0
7 1 GM Carlsen Magnus NOR 2892 13,5 225,5 235,0 2658 0,0

[JustinHorton]

Dubov v Giri an immediate draw

[LawrenceCooper]

Final Ranking after 17 Rounds
Rk. SNo Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 29 IM Assaubayeva Bibisara KAZ 2285 14,0 170,0 177,5 2328 0,0
2 5 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra CFR 2475 12,5 157,5 164,5 2274 0,0
3 6 GM Gunina Valentina CFR 2452 12,0 173,0 181,5 2332 0,0
4 24 IM Shuvalova Polina CFR 2306 12,0 167,5 174,0 2271 0,0

[LawrenceCooper]

Duda, Firouja & MVL all win to finish on 15/21.

[JustinHorton]

So is it Duda v MVL?

[JustinHorton]

Assaubayeva wins the Women's contest

[JustinHorton]

Howell came 106th

[LawrenceCooper]

MVL v Duda for the title.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Duda, Firouja & MVL all win to finish on 15/21.

Oh dear, Magnus won't like losing in the last round at all.

[JustinHorton]

Surprisingly uneventful draw in the first game

[JustinHorton]

And another in the second

[JustinHorton]

But MVL wins the third at a canter (as far as I can see) and the title with it.

[LawrenceCooper]

MVL v Duda for the title.

MVL wins the third game after two draws to win the title.

[NickFaulks]

MVL wins the third game after two draws to win the title.

Do we know how they chose colours for the third game?