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Anish Ascendant: Round 9 Candidates Report

@NoJoke Chess

Anish Giri won the only decisive game today to join Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Fabiano Caruana in a tie for second a half-point behind leader Ian Nepomniachtchi. It's almost certain that with only 5 rounds left that the eventual winner will be one of those 4. (Photo: Lennart Ootes, FIDE)

NM Aakaash Meduri went over the games for us today:

https://youtu.be/maa9HQd-bTQ

https://lichess.org/study/6S9qyr0z/pGbUCQ12

Round 10 Begins at 11:00 UTC on Wednesday.