In the American St. Louis, a chess tournament 2022 Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX, in which the Azerbaijani grandmaster Shahriyar Mamedyarov, is being held.
10 grandmasters, among which Harry Kasparov, who has completed the serious chess career, play chess-960 or, as they are often called, Fisher chess. The difference from classic chess is that the initial arrangement of figures is determined randomly. Time control at the current tournament – 20 minutes plus 5 seconds for each move made.
In a single -circle tournament, Shakhriyar Mammadyarov has already held six parties. Yesterday he beat the American Hikar Nakamur, lost to another representative of the United States Fabiano Caruan and tied with the Frenchman Alireza Firuja. And today, Shakhriyar prevailed over another American Wesley CO, and then over representatives of Russia Harry Kasparov and Yan Nepomnya, who are now under the flag of Fide.
from 4.5 points, Shahriyar after 6 rounds takes 1st place, ahead of the additional indicators of Firuj.
It is interesting that last year in St. Louis, our chess player beat Kasparov. And before that, in the summer of 2021, they met twice at the tournament in Zagreb, and there, too, both times won the Azerbaijani grandmaster. Moreover, the first batch of Shakhriyar completed in his favor for seven moves.
The prize fund of the current competition is 150 thousand dollars. The winner will receive 37500. Tomorrow three final rounds will be played. Mammadyarov will meet with an American pussier Dominges, Russian Peter Svidler and Levon Aronyan, who moved to the United States.