Today, the 7th chess tournament of memory of the famous Azerbaijani Chess player Vugar Gashimov was completed in Baku.
His winner decided on “Armageddon”. They became American Fabiano Karuana. He and Hungarian Richard Rapport Following the results of 14 parties to fast chess and 14 parties in Blitz scored the same number of points – on 24. The strongest was to decide on the party, where the white five minutes of time, and in black – four. At the same time, a draw arranged black. But before a draw, it did not come. Karuana won and became the winner of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial.
3rd place was taken by Azerbaijan grandmaster Shakhriyar Mammadyarov, who scored 22.5 points.