Belgrade GP: MVL beats Predke, breaks drawing spell

Seven out of eight games finished drawn in Friday’s fourth round of the preliminaries at the FIDE Grand Prix in Belgrade. The only winner of the day was Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The Frenchman’s win was the first one of the event in pool D. With two rounds to go in the double round-robins, MVL and Anish Giri are sole leaders in their pools. | Photos: Mark Livshitz