McShane

GM Luke McShane wins London Chess Classic Super RapidPlay, which was held over the weekend alongside the main tournament, scoring a near perfect 9.5/10 points.

The tournament featured 368 players from 47 different countries, with 226 players from the English federation.

Starting as 12th seeded, McShane finished a full point ahead of second placed GM Hrant Melkumyan and 1.5 ahead of bronze medalist after tiebreakers GM Alex Lenderman. First seed GM Matthew Saddler finished in 18th place with 7 out of 10 points.

London Chess Classic Super RapidPlay is part of the London Chess Classic, which ended yesterday after anintense final playoffs with GM Magnus Carlsen  settling the three way tie between Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

After Lagrave won over Giri in an exciting Armageddon round, the French GM faced Carlsen in a match for LCC title and possibly the Grand Chess Tour overall champion title. Carlsen defeated Vachier-Lagrave with 1.5 points to 0.5 points in two rapid games and won both titles.

Final Standings London RapidPlay

Rk.     Name Rtg Pts.
1 GM Mcshane Luke J 2650 9.5
2 GM Melkumyan Hrant 2675 8.5
3 GM Lenderman Alex 2687 8.0
4 GM Hansen Eric 2680 8.0
5
GM Pert Nicholas 2657 8.0
6
GM Edouard Romain 2629 8.0
7
GM Hammer Jon Ludvig 2607 8.0
8
GM Grigoriants Sergey 2600 8.0
9
GM Jumabayev Rinat 2587 8.0
10
IM Eggleston David J 2432 8.0
11
GM Fodor Tamas Jr 2410 8.0
12
GM Howell David Wl 2687 7.5
13
GM Gharamian Tigran 2652 7.5
14
GM Cherniaev Alexander 2552 7.5
15
GM Arkell Keith Cc 2470 7.5
16
IM Fernandez Daniel H 2402 7.5
17
IM Gullaksen Eirik T 2350 7.5
18
GM Sadler Matthew D 2800 7.0
19
GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2694 7.0
20
GM Hawkins Jonathan 2680 7.0
21
GM Bauer Christian 2661 7.0
22
GM Hebden Mark L 2657 7.0
23
IM Ghasi Ameet K 2605 7.0
24
GM Jones Gawain Cb 2597 7.0
25
GM Bok Benjamin 2567 7.0
26
GM Speelman Jon S 2567 7.0
27
GM Rowson Jonathan W 2540 7.0
28
GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2526 7.0
29
FM Strugnell Carl 2482 7.0
30
IM Zhou Yang-Fan 2479 7.0
31
IM Rendle Thomas E 2455 7.0
32
Zujev Oleg 2432 7.0
33
GM Dragun Kamil 2417 7.0
34
GM Mcdonald Neil R 2417 7.0
35
FM Haria Ravi 2410 7.0
36
GM Georgescu Tiberiu-Marian 2395 7.0
37
FM Kilpatrick Callum 2395 7.0
38
GM Hector Jonny 2380 7.0
39
IM Hamitevici Vladimir 2350 7.0
40
IM Krishna Crg 2331 7.0
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