2025 Sinquefield Cup: Round 2 | #GrandChessTour

August 19, 2025 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Live from University Tower, the 12th Sinquefield Cup is the fifth of six legs of the Grand Chess Tour. The nine Tour players are joined by one wildcard (pairings below) for a classical round robin. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan & Peter Svidler, and IM Nazi Paikidze for the move-by-move.

2025.08.19
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ROUND 2
| 40 Moves in 90 Min. Incr. 30 Sec. / / 30 Min. Incr. 30 Sec.
R Praggnanandhaa (1) vs. Fabiano Caruana (0.5)
Levon Aronian (1) vs. Sam Sevian (0.5)
Alireza Firouzja (0.5) vs. Jan-Krzysztof Duda (0.5)
Wesley So (0.5) vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (0.5)
Gukesh Dommaraju vs. Nodirbek Abdusattorov

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