MVL beats Aronian to reach Carlsen or Artemiev semi-final
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat Levon Aronian in bullet chess to
set up a Speed Chess semi-final against the winner of today’s Magnus Carlsen
vs. Vladislav Artemiev match (live
from 14:00 CET with Jan Gustafsson and Peter Svidler commentating). Levon
had the chance to score many more points in the 5-minute section especially,
but went into bullet level at 9:9. MVL eased to to a 14.5:12.5 victory, ith Levon
commenting, “I don’t spend my time doing nonsensical things like online bullet…
and I paid for it!”