Today, at the Chess Tour’s chess online tournament, organized by the world champion Magnus Karlsen, five more tours of the preliminary stage were played.
Azerbaijani grandmaster Teymur Rajabov, led to 4 points after the first five rounds, today played worse. In five part, he scored only 2 points. After ten tires in Teimura 6 points, and it ranks 6th.
Today, Rajabov played a draw with Americans Hikar Nakakura and Wesley CO, Iranian Alisa Flashing and Pole Jan-Kshyshto Dudoy. The only defeat happened in the 9th round, when our chess player gave way to Indian Rameshbab Pragnananda.
Shahriyar Mammadyarov scored 2.5 points on the first day. Today Shash played better. He won the Russian Sergey Karyakin, American Lenaer Dominguez and Indian Santosh Gujrati, he played a draw with British Guiewin Jones and lost to Vietnamese Le Cuang Leir. Like Rajabov, Mammadyarov has 6 points, but is located on the 5th position due to higher additional indicators.
Magnus Karlsen, who has 7 points.
Recall New In Chess Classic – Fifth Tournament in the Champions Chess Tour series. In early January, Teymur Rajabov won the second tournament, won a brilliant victory over Levon Aronian. Thus, Rajabov provided part in the final stage, which will be held in September.
on the New In Chess Classic, as in previous tournaments, are 16 chess players. At the preliminary stage, they play with each other in one circle. According to the results of the 15 tours of the G8, the best will receive the right to play playoffs. Time control in the tournament – 15 minutes plus 10 seconds for each made move.
The prize fund of the competition is 100 thousand dollars. The winner will receive 30 thousand.
After four tournaments in the overall competition, Teymur Rajabov occupies 3rd place. He has 108 points. Above are Wesley CO and Magnus Karlsen. Shakhriyar Mammadyarov played only in one tournament and so far has no glasses.