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The King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships started with a shock. Top seed Magnus Carlsen lost his first two Rapid games, first flagging out to Adam Tukhaev from a good position and then blundering his queen against 16-year-old Uzbek IM, Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Carlsen pulled it back after that, but he lost a third to game to Alexander Zubov in Rd 7.
After 10 rounds, there’s a seven-way tie at the top between Ian Nepomniachtchi, Dmitry Andreikin, Wang Hao, Yu Yangyi, Vladislav Artemiev, Daniil Dubov and Maxim Matlakov (all 7.5). Defending champion Viswanathan Anand (7 with one loss to Ivan Šaric)
