at the Chess Tournament of Memory of Vugar Gashimov, who passes in Baku, Competitions on fast chess ended.
Following the results of 7 rounds, the tournament table is headed by Hungarian Rippport and Russian Sergey Karyakin, who scored 16 points. 14 points have Shakhriyar Mammadyarov and American Fabiano Karuana.
Shakhriyar in the 6th round has defeated Rapporta (1.5: 0.5), and in the 7th – Karuan (1.5: 0.5). On the 5th place, our other chess player Rauf Mamedov, who has 9 points. He defeated Czech David Navaru (1.5: 0.5) and gave way to Karyakin (0.5: 1.5).
The last three places are occupied by Navara (8 points), Vugar Asadley (4) and Indian Vishvanatan Anand (3).
Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow there will be a competition in Blitz. The winner will determine the amount of glasses scored in Rapid and Blitz.
Recall, for victory on the results of two parties in Rapid, chess players received 3 points. In the event of a draw rivals to identify the winner played “Armageddon”. For the victory in “Armageddon” there was 2 points. Chess player lossed in Armageddon, received 1 point.
Time control: Rapid – 15 minutes plus 10 seconds for each moved; Blitz – 5 minutes plus 3 seconds; “Armageddon” – 5 minutes by white, 4 minutes from the black plus 3 seconds for each move after the 60th stroke.