The American increased seeds, GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, and Jeffery Xiong, received the final of the spherical of 64 matches on day 5 of the Chess.com Global Chess Championship. Although the favorites in the end received, the underdogs gave them critical fights, typically taking the early lead and pushing their potent opponents to deliver out their finest sport to win.

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In a dynamic sport one battle, Kravtsiv gained an edge main into the endgame towards Caruana and created two highly effective related handed pawns within the heart. 

Kravtsiv was on the verge of successful the second sport when Caruana found a intelligent solution to create a handed pawn, swinging the rook ending in his favor.

With the momentum on his aspect, Caruana squeezed a positional benefit into a fabric one in sport three to take over the match lead.

GM Oleksandr Bortnyk was one other underdog to take the early lead, using his time edge to get the higher hand in an equal rook ending. Xiong instantly struck again, successful the following two video games. Their extremely tactical second sport is our Game of the Day. 

In sport three, Xiong received materials within the ending and transformed seamlessly regardless of the resourceful Bortnyk’s makes an attempt to defend. 

After two attracts, Nakamura pulled forward in sport three, gaining a cushty benefit from the opening and breaking down Vasquez’s queenside to win materials. 

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