Last Sunday’s final of the $1m Global Chess League in Dubai went down to a single combat blitz game with an unlikely outcome. After several tiebreak stages failed to separate Triveni Continental Kings, led by Levon Aronian, and upGrad Mumba Masters, headed by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the match evolved to a 3+2 blitz game between Jonas Bjerre, 19, and Javokhir Sindarov, 17, where the Danish player, who had lost several previous games to the Uzbek, was the underdog.
