US star Hikaru Nakamura came out on top in a thrilling last gasp Grand Final of the Chessable Masters to seal his first Champions Chess Tour title.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
According to information received here, the 35-year-old, playing from Sunrise, Fl, was in full beast-mode as he launched an all-out assault on fellow American Fabiano Caruana, the previously unbeaten tournament leader.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Caruana fought back to take it to an Armageddon tiebreak, but it was not enough as Nakamura recovered from a blunder to push one last time and win the tournament overall. Nakamura takes home a $30,000 top prize and a ticket to the Champions Chess Tour Finals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Caruana had gone into the final unbeaten and needing just one match win while Nakamura needed to win twice due to the double-elimination format.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Yet a win against Nakamura is never easy and he was too strong. Few will argue against him being a deserved winner. Caruana had no answer in the first match, the Grand Final proper, as Nakamura fired all cylinders to race to a 3-1 win.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Nakamura, who knocked out World Champion Magnus Carlsen the day before, now needed to keep his hot streak going and beat Caruana again in a two-game Reset.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
With momentum behind him, Nakamura went ahead in the first game before Caruana rallied to take the second with a brilliant queen sacrifice and send it to the Armageddon tiebreak.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Nakamura ended with a flourish, pinning Caruana's bishop in front of his king with 51.Rd2! and then 53.Ne3 to overwhelm his opponent. Nakamura had come back through the Losers Bracket to win the event overall.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Nakamura said afterwards: "I think I gave myself maybe a 20% chance of coming back, but I think that for Fabiano it was all about the first match and once the first match didn't go so well I think the momentum was definitely in my favour."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Division II saw a notable result as the Uzbek teenager Nordibek Abdusattorov beat the France's former World Blitz Chess Champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Abdusattorov now secures his place in the top division for the next event, alongside Nakamura, Carlsen and Caruana.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Division III title was won on Thursday by the Iranian talent Amin Tabatabaei who defeated Alexey Sarana 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Champions Chess Tour will return with the Play-In for its third leg on April 17 before the knockout tournament running from May 22 to 26.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Division III title was won on Thursday by the Iranian talent Amin Tabatabaei who defeated Alexey Sarana 2.5-1.5 in the Grand Final.<\/p>\r\n\r\n