Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026 · Blitz Tiebreak
Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026 — Blitz Tiebreak Round 2
Best game of the round
GM Vincent Keymer (2628) vs GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2734), 0-1, Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Classical Variation — replay the game
Critical game
GM Magnus Carlsen (2860) vs GM Richard Rapport (2616), 1-0, King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation, Gligoric-Taimanov System — replay the game
Games
- GM Levon Aronian (2714) – GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2819) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Magnus Carlsen (2860) – GM Richard Rapport (2616) 1-0 game
- GM Fabiano Caruana (2738) – GM Bibisara Assaubayeva (2424) 1-0 game
- GM Alireza Firouzja (2797) – GM Anish Giri (2636) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Andrew Hong (2537) – GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2704) 0-1 game
- GM Vincent Keymer (2628) – GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2734) 0-1 game
- GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2612) – GM Hans Moke Niemann (2711) 0-1 game
- GM Haik M. Martirosyan (2686) – GM Abhimanyu Mishra (2541) 1-0 game
- GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (2765) – GM Quang Liem Le (2675) 1-0 game
- GM Praggnanandhaa R (2712) – GM Erigaisi Arjun (2766) 0-1 game
- GM Rameshbabu Vaishali (2345) – GM Vladislav Artemiev (2712) 0-1 game
- GM Jorden Van Foreest (2659) – GM Wesley So (2745) 0-1 game
Standings after round 2
- Carlsen, Magnus
- Erigaisi Arjun
- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
- Artemiev, Vladislav
- Nepomniachtchi, Ian
- Martirosyan, Haik M.
- Abdusattorov, Nodirbek
- Firouzja, Alireza
- So, Wesley
- Caruana, Fabiano