Grand Swiss 6: MVL & Sasikiran catch the leaders

Alireza Firouzja let Alexei Shirov escape while Evgeniy Najer stumbled into a 3-fold repetition against Fabiano Caruana as none of the leaders won in Round 6 of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss. That allowed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to join them on 4.5/6 by continuing to win with White and draw with Black, while Krishnan Sasikiran also seized the chance by beating Alexandr Predke. Lei Tingjie regained the sole lead on 5/6 in the women’s event by defeating Jolanta Zawadzka.

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