Vachier-Lagrave Wins Match With Svidler
Friday, July 29, 2016 at 11:44PM
Dennis Monokroussos in Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Peter Svidler

There's still a round to go, but Maxime Vachier-Lagrave has clinched match victory against Peter Svidler. He won the rapid portion 2.5-1.5, and with a game to go leads the classical stage 2.5-.5. The classical games count double, but of course it wouldn't matter at this point if they counted 100 times more than the rapid games.

There's a nice report on the match here, and it also notes that MVL's rating is (rounded up) 2820! The '90s generation has taken over, led by those actually born in the year 1990.

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