GM Fabiano Caruana clinched first place at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund, Germany with a round to spare. It was his second title in three years.
In doing so, he crested 2800 for the first time and is now the third highest-rated player in the world. He is only the seventh player in history to top 2800.
Assuming he plays no more events before the Olympiad in August, his rating will become officially 2801, only four points behind GM Levon Aronian.
In round six, he beat defending champion GM Michael Adams. Caruana moved to 5/6 and since no one had more than 3.5/6, he could not be caught. Today he drew GM Peter Leko to finish with 5.5/7 and a 1.5-point margin over Leko, who finished tied for second at 4/7.
