Piece activity vs Pawn central control - Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier Lagrave

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London Chess Classic is the final stage of the Grand Chess Tour 2019. It's held at the Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington from 2-8 December.

It features Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Liren Ding and Levon Aronian.

The matches consists of two 130 + 30 delay games worth 6 points, two 25+10 games worth 4 points and four 5+3 games worth 2 points.

Tiebreak - two 10+5 games followed by an armageddon.

Schedule in UTC:

Round 1 Dec 2, 2019 16:00
Round 2 Dec 3, 2019 16:00
Round 3 Dec 4, 2019 16:00
Round 4 Dec 4, 2019 17:30
Round 5 Dec 4, 2019 19:00
Round 6 Dec 4, 2019 19:30
Round 7 Dec 4, 2019 20:00
Round 8 Dec 4, 2019 20:30
Rest Day
Round 9 Dec 6, 2019 16:00
Round 10 Dec 7, 2019 14:00
Round 11 Dec 8, 2019 14:00
Round 12 Dec 8, 2019 15:30
Round 13 Dec 8, 2019 17:00
Round 14 Dec 8, 2019 17:30
Round 15 Dec 8, 2019 18:00
Round 16 Dec 8, 2019 18:30

TODAY'S GAME:

Magnus Carlsen vs Maxime Vachier Lagrave

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f3 h6 8. Be3 b5 9. a3 Nbd7 10. Qd2 Bb7 11. O-O-O h5 12. Kb1 Be7 13. Qe1 Rc8 14. Rg1 Qc7 15. g3 Ne5 16. Rg2 O-O 17. h3 d5 18. f4 Nc4 19. e5 Nxe3 20. Qxe3 Ne4 21. Nxe4 dxe4 22. Re2 Bd5 23. Bg2 Qc4 24. Nb3 Bc5 25. Nxc5 Qa2+ 26. Kc1 Rfd8 27. c4 bxc4 28. Red2 Qa1+ 29. Kc2 Qa2 30. Kc1 Qa1+ 31. Kc2 Qa2 32. Kc1 ½-½