Pro Chess League results.
PRO CHESS LEAGUE finals.
3rd Place Match
Armenia EAGLES 7.5
Chengdu PANDAS 8.5
Championship Match
St Louis ARCH BISHOPS 10
Baden-Baden SNOWBALLS 6
The Pandas finally did what they had to do by winning 3rd place against the favorite of the whole championship in overtime with the key being Li Chao. The Armenian Eagles just couldn't do it at the end. Zhang Di is a grossly under rated player who could be the MVP. His rating is 1966 and his performance rating is 2345. Danny loves that player.
The Arch bishops with Caruana playing (Hikaru) chess managed to win quite easily the Snowballs. It was just not the best day for Meyer who overall did very well in the tournament. Alexander Donchenko had an amazing performance in the final 4 and managing to get a draw against Caruana he could be the MVP. Caruana with an overall less than his real rating performance but with an excellent final 4 not losing one game and only drawing once is the favorite for MVP. And what can we say for Mike Kummer who chose the (under rated talents) He chose Bok instead of Wesley So and he actually ended up with a really good tournament. Nikolas Theodorou with the IM title just standing there is a distraction for his opponents gave the push for his team and became the key to leading the team to the final round with 4 more points than the Snowballs. Julian Proleiko performed really well for his rating and he was the one who got the draw in the last round to be sure that they won the tournament.
These are the performances and ratings of the leaders of the PRO Chess league
2019 League Leaders
Fabiano Caruana
Rating:2827
Points: 42
Games: 57
Perf. Ratings: 2742
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Rating"2780
Points: 31
Games: 41
Perf. Rating 2753
Wesley So
Rating: 2776
Points:37
Games: 50
Perf. Rating: 2706
Georg Meier
Rating: 2639 Points: 36 Games: 50
Perf. Rating: 2698
Eduardo Iturrizaga
Rating:2636
Points:33 Games: 44
Perf. Rating: 2748
Ray Robson
Rating: 2682
Points: 31
Games:45
Perf. Rating: 2716
Daniel Naroditsky
Rating:2615
Points: 32
Games:49
Perf. Rating: 2675
Ivan Saric
Rating:2689
Points:27
Games: 35
Perf. Rating: 2741
Jeffery Xiong
Rating:2651
Points: 26
Games: 37
Perf. Rating: 2745
Hikaru Nakamura
Rating: 2763
Points: 22.5
games: 33
perf. rating: 2751