Whom You Know: Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Crowned The 2022 Superbet Chess Classic Romania Winner

Monday, May 30, 2022

Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Crowned The 2022 Superbet Chess Classic Romania Winner

French Grandmaster Takes Home $77,667 For The First Place Prize

The first leg of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) has concluded with Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-LaGrave taking the first place crown of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania. The tournament included all nine full tour players and one local wildcard player, Romanian Grandmaster Bogdan-Daniel Deac, all of whom competed over nine rounds for the $350,000 total prize fund.

Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-LaGrave was named the winner of Superbet Chess Classic Romania, the first leg of the Grand Chess Tour.

Initially it seemed that one of the tournament's co-leaders GM Wesley So or GM Levon Aronian would take the first place prize of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania but GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won his last round game; catching up with the two co-leaders and ultimately defeating both in an exciting round-robin playoff. The French grandmaster was declared the winner of the event, earning 10 GCT points and pocketing over $77,000 in prize money.

"All in all, this was an excellent day for me in winning three games in a row," said GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. "I knew that GM Firouza would not back down from a fight on the last day and while we both tried very hard to win at some point it backfired for my fellow Frenchman and in the end, I won a very hard fought game. I would like to thank the organizers for putting on this amazing tournament and especially thank my family, friends, and fans for their support throughout this entire event."

"The last nine days have provided thrilling matchups and nonstop action to chess fans watching live here in Bucharest and through our broadcast worldwide," said GCT Executive Director Michael Khodarkovsky. "We look forward to continuing this excitement for the next leg of the tour, the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. The Grand Chess Tour continues to showcase chess as it's meant to be with the largest prize funds offered globally, the best players from around the world, and a world-class commentary team that our fans have come to know and love."

The second leg of the Grand Chess Tour, Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland will feature a commentary team composed of Grandmasters Yasser Seirawan, Peter Svidler, Alejandro Ramirez and Cristian Chirila and Woman Grandmaster Anastasia Karlovich.

In conjunction with the GCT, Chief Tour Arbiter IA David Sedgwick and Deputy Tour Arbiter IA Chris Bird have confirmed the event arbiters. IA Tomasz Delega shall serve as Event Chief Arbiter, and he will be assisted by IA Agnieszka Brustman as Event Deputy Arbiter.

There has been a change to the field for the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, GM Constantin Lupulescu had to withdraw from the tournament and has been replaced by the current Romanian Champion, GM David Gavrilescu.

The Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland is sponsored by the Superbet Foundation and organized by Superbet Poland and will feature10 players in a round robin format with a total of $175,000 in prize money. The Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland will be held in Warsaw, Poland at the Conference Center of Museum of the History of Polish Jews from May 18 - May 23, 2022 with a Private Opening Ceremony on May 18 at 2:00 p.m. (CET). The tournament rounds will begin at 2:00pm (CET) daily and are free and open to spectators on a walk-in basis. The tournament broadcast will be available on grandchesstour.org.

Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland May 18 - May 23, 2022

Player Name

Player Type

Country

FIDE Rating

URS Rating

Levon Aronian

Full Tour Player

USA

2785

2776

Fabiano Caruana

Full Tour Player

USA

2781

2793

Wesley So

Full Tour Player

USA

2778

2797

Richard Rapport

Full Tour Player

HUN

2762

2775

Viswanathan Anand

Wildcard

IND

2751

Jan-Krzysztof Duda

Wildcard

POL

2750

2870

Anton Korobov

Wildcard

UKR

2695

2722

Radoslaw Wojtaszek

Wildcard

POL

2694

2710

Kirill Shevchenko

Wildcard

UKR

2652

2673

David Gavrilescu

Wildcard

ROU

2518

2538

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