The 20-year-old scored a career-best result by defeating the World No 1 in the Norwegian’s favourite format, and leads 1-0 against the US champion, Fabiano Caruana, in the final.
Vincent Keymer made a career breakthrough this week when the 20-year-old German knocked out Magnus Carlsen at the Weissenhaus Grand Slam in the classical Freestyle format which the world No 1 now prefers. There was a lively running commentary on the game’s deciding stages on YouTube.
Keymer went on to take a 1-0 lead on Thursday against the world No 3 and US champion, Fabiano Caruana, in the final, whose winner takes the first prize of $200,000 and which can be followed on lichess. Play starts at noon GMT on Friday. Carlsen leads Javokhir Sindarov 1-0 in the third place match.
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