Needing a win to clinch the title, Wesley So instead suffers his first loss in the 2020 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX.
Wesley So tumbled at the finish line, losing to teen sensation Alireza Firouzja and winding up at 5th place in the 2020 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX on Monday, September 14.
Rebounding from his fifth-round defeat to So, Carlsen tallied 3 points in the last 4 rounds to finish with 6.0 points, the same total as Hikaru Nakamura, who drew with So in the seventh round. They split the champion's and runner-up's purses and pocketed $31,250 each. So settled for $12,500 .
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