KEYMER WINS THE ROMANIA GCT
The first classical event of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour have being place in Romania with 10 elite players facing each other in a round robin format. The line up is formed by: Candidates winner Javokhir Sindarov, US Champ Ffabiano Caruana, Candidates runner-up Anish Giri, The top 7, 8 and 9 of the world Vincent Keymer, Alireza Firouzja & Wesley So, 2 european top guys as MVL & Van Foreest, Olimpiad winner Praggnanandhaa and the local hero and Rumania nº1 Bodgan-Daniel Deac. Each day i going to analyze the best games of the round.The Decisive Game
Being tied in the top with Caruana but playing with the white pieces Keymer had good options to win his game and avoid the tiebreaks.
https://lichess.org/study/RSHmbk4F/U1vd37DH#5
Perfect game by Vincent with an interesting opening idea and punishing perfectly the Van Foreest mistakes, well deserved triumph but its true that he takes a free point vs Firouzja while Caruana earn it in a fair way, but ok is not Keymer's fault so congrats Kaymer for his great performance as well as Caruana who played an agressive 4 knights sicilian vs MVL but he can't managed to take the point, the only victory of the day was by hand of Keymer.
At least Caruna tried it so much to take the point while the other 2 games ended in a fast draw.
Sindarov finished in the third position tied with So who made all draws.

I really enjoyed this event, i analiced 18 games you have all of them in this Lichess Study
In my Youtube Channel i uploading all the games that i analiced of this tournament too and tomorrow starts the Norway chess with an incredible line up with Magnus and Gukesh there and the womens section that is going to be very interesting too, so follow me to see what happen in this event, each evening after the rounds you are going to have an analysis of the best games here and in youtube, bye bye.
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