The 13th World Champion of Chess will compete in a very special exhibition that combines eight super Grandmasters -- three of them world champions -- with tournament benefactor Rex Sinquefield.
Fueled by a historical run of seven consecutive wins, GM Fabiano Caruana has won the 2014 Sinquefield Cup's $100,000 top prize. Last year's Cup winner, GM Magnus Carlsen, took second.
The 2014 Sinquefield Cup had seen 14 wins in 24 games, with at least one win in each of its first eight rounds. Friday's penultimate round was the first in nine to finish with all three games drawn.
Seven consecutive victories against the world's top-ten players came to a close on Thursday -- and it took a draw with the World Champion to end the run. GM Fabiano Caruana has clinched the Sinquefield Cup's $100,000 first-place prize.
Italian GM Fabiano Caruana continued his winning ways on Wednesday, defeating French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave for the second time in the 2014 Sinquefield Cup. With three rounds remaining, Caruana needs only a half-point to clinch first.
GM Fabiano Caruana is playing a tournament of his own, leaving the rest of the 2014 Sinquefield Cup field in a fight for second place. On Tuesday, he earned his second win over GM Veselin Topalov and his sixth straight.
