GM Alireza Firouzja leads the 2024 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz by a point and a half after the first nine rounds of blitz. Behind him is the top-scorer of the blitz portion, GM Wesley So, who scored 7/8, and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, both on 16 points.
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is on 15.5 points after starting the day as a co-leader, and GM Levon Aronian was off to a hot start, scoring a hat-trick to rebound after losing in round one, but he slowed down in the second half of the day to finish on 15 points.
The tournament concludes with the last round of blitz on August 16, starting at 2 p.m. ET / 20:00 CEST / 11:30 p.m. IST.
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