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India's GM Nihal Sarin was the only unbeaten player as he won the final Play-In of the 2026 Chess.com Open and made what he joked was "a very tough choice" to play GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and not GM Magnus Carlsen in the Playoffs. The playe...