Chess #1253

The Moscow Grand Prix ended in triumph for Ding Liren and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Ding scored 6 points from 9 rounds in the 18-player Swiss. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov scored 5.5 to take clear second. Third to ninth places were shared by a pack on 5. That group included Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Grischuk, Anish Giri, Peter Svidler, Hou Yifan and Teimour Radjabov. Pentala Harikrishna shared 10-12 with Boris Gelfand and Evegeny Tomashevsky (all 4.5).

Half-way into the GP circuit, “Shakh” leads with 280 points (clear second at Moscow and shared second at Sharjah), while Ding is second on 240. MVL and Grischuk