Grand Swiss 1: Caruana and Firouzja strike

Fabiano Caruana carried his form from the end of the US Championship into Round 1 of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga as he sacrificed a full knight to take down Maksim Chigaev. 18-year-old Alireza Firouzja moved above Wesley So and Alexander Grischuk to world no. 7 as he beat Nijat Abasov, with Kirill Alekseenko scoring the only other win on the top 10 boards. Dariusz Swiercz’s reward for winning the longest game of the day is a Round 2 pairing with Firouzja, while it’s Nihal Sarin vs. Caruana on board 1.

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