Luck would have it that Triveni Continental Kings played as White. As per regulations, the choice of colours was determined by a coin flip. In case of a draw (each team winning one match), the winner would have been decided in a blitz match. The finals consisted of two rapid matches and the winners had to take both of them. The Champion was decided between the Triveni Continental Kings (led by one of the strongest world GMs, Levon Aronian) and Mumba Masters (steered by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the 2021 World Blitz Champion) in rapid, blitz and sudden-death matches. The overall prize fund for the tournament was a stunning one million. With this crucial victory, Bjerre not only clinched the title for his team but also won the $500,000 prize. "Levon (team captain) told me - just fight, if you win this game, you will win the event," Bjerre added. I am still shivering," said Bjerre whose journey in this tournament can be described as - from zero to hero.
After suffering a series of four losses to Sindarov, in a drawn-even endgame which the Uzbek player decided to force, Bjerre got the upper hand and won. Bjerre - who was one of the most inexperienced players in the tournament and lost most of his games, delivered the crucial victory to his team when it mattered.
In a spectacular finish, Danish 19-year-old Grandmaster Jonas Bjerre brought victory to Triveni Continental Kings after defeating Uzbek 17-year-old prodigy Javokhir Sindarov in a suspenseful game, as per a press release from GCL. After two rounds of rapid ending in a draw, and then another two rounds of blitz which also finished with draws, the Champion was decided in a series of sudden-death blitz games where the decisive outcome came in the fourth game. In a never-before-seen nail-biting ending to a chess event, the winner was decided through three stages of tie-breaks. Dubai, July 3 (ANI): The inaugural edition of the Global Chess League reached its climax in the grand final which took place in Dubai.
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