Candidates 2020 (7): MVL makes its move

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave crushed the French defense of leader Ian Nepomniachtchi to join him with 4.5/7 reached the middle of the 2020 Candidates Tournament.

Nepo's defeat gave hope to the other players in the event, but the group of pursuers of Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Wang Hao and Alexander Grischuk still have a whole point of disadvantage after the other three games ended up on relatively quiet boards.