MOSCOW, Jul 20 classical chess by Norwegian Magnus Carlsen in the first round of the Grand Chess Tour in rapid chess, which takes place in Zagreb. The Russian, who had previously won the Candidates Tournament, played with black pieces. In other games of the first round, Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave defeated Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov with black, Jorden van Forest from the Netherlands defeated Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan with black, Alireza Firouzja of France defeated Croatian Ivan Sarich with white, Americans Wesley So and Leinier Dominguez Perez played a draw.
