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  • Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
  • 10 / 08 / 2014


The fifth day of competitions in the 2014-2015 Grand Prix Chess ended with another draw for the Cuban Grand Master Leinier Domínguez, who on this occasion faced the American Hikaru Nakamura.

While in Baku, where the event is held, Cuban has posted four boards and had a setback against the Italian Fabiano Caruana. Leinier is the best chess player in Latin America, owner of 2751 Elo points. Today he played with the black pieces, and tied with Nakamura (2764) after 56 moves of an English Opening.

After Caruana and Gelfand, are Nakamura and Svidler with three units, and midpoint left is Kasimdzhanov, Tomashevsky, Karjakin and Radjabov are located.

Then Dominguez and Grischuk appear, with two points and in the end of the system Mamedyarov and Andreikin, holders of 1.5 per capita.

Tomorrow the Cuban will play with white pieces against Mamedyarov, while Kasimdzhanov face Andreikin and Caruana will face Svidler.

Karjakin will play with white against Gelfand, Radjabov will faced Grischuk while Tomashevsky face Nakamura

Source: Prensa Latina


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