Saturday
Sep022017
Vachier-Lagrave vs. Xiong
Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 3:11PM
This past Wednesday, Chess.com's Speed Chess Championship marched on with its penultimate first round match, between world #2 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and the young Jeffery Xiong. The video is here, and I'll give the result in the comments section, to avoid providing a spoiler to anyone who wants to enjoy the match as if live.
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The match began very competitively, and Xiong was equal after the 5-minute portion. As it went on, however, MVL got going, got on a roll, and really crushed Xiong in the bullet phase, winning by an overall score of 19-12 (despite losing all three of the Chess 960 games).