The Finale Match !! | Magnus Carlsen vs Ian Nepomniachtchi | Global Chess League 2026

Give it up for the team that has to climb the final mountain this season, the Ganji's Grandmasters! Give it up for the defending champions, Alpine APL Pipers! The Ganji's Grandmasters. On the icon board, two-times candidates winner and former world blitz champion, Yannapamneshe! Time to introduce the defending champions, the Alpine APL Pipers! Five-times classical world champion, six-times world rapid champion, nine-times world blitz champion, two-times esports world cup winner, reigning freestyle champion, world cup champion, world number one! Flair of the match award goes to Yannapamneshe! Yann, congratulations on that win. I want to talk about your game and we will dig deeper into it. But that one move with the bishop, that was magical. Well, first of all, good evening and thank you everyone for all the support. It means the world to me. Also, I was listening to Levan very carefully and I finally found out that I'm the only one person he's not friends with. I mean, I tried myself, I counted one, two, three, four, but okay, I wasn't on the list. Okay, so it is what it is. You didn't play basketball with us! It is what it is, yeah. And regarding the game, well, I have to admit, at first I got insanely unlucky because I prepared quite a bit for this game with black color and prepared a lot of this particular line. And this move order, okay, I never checked and I mixed up everything immediately and then I got insanely lucky. It was like my only idea, bishop takes f2, and it reminded me of some kid's tournament. Okay, you just badly hope that the guy will blunder something and okay, you don't have many ideas, but this one, this one. And it worked out and I'm really happy that it helped my team. But once again, I want to thank my team for an amazing atmosphere. I mean, it was arguably the most friendly experience, okay, despite Levan, which I ever had like playing in a team. And I mean, I played in several teams, you know, but this is completely always cheerful. Even after the bad matches, we were always like high in the spirit and the team chemistry was superb. So I'd just like to thank you, my teammates, and of course Adiban for perfect coaching. Does the victory seem sweeter because you beat Magnus Carlsen and clinched this one for the Ganges Grandmasters? Yes. How sweet? On a graph of 1 to 10? Okay, 8 out of 10. All right, fair enough. Give it up for the Ganges Grandmasters as the winners of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League Season 4.