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GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov nonetheless leads the preliminaries of the Aimchess Rapid event after eight rounds of play, nevertheless it was once more GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who received the followers on the sting of their seats as he performed an excellent transfer in his recreation with GM Richard Rapport. Together with GM Magnus Carlsen, the Azerbaijani GM is trailing Abdusattorov by half a degree.
After his encounter with GM Anish Giri grew to become a candidate for Game of the Year, Mamedyarov’s ultimate transfer towards Rapport might be among the many contestants of Move of the Year. While the black queen was beneath assault, the rook sacrifice was the prelude to a compelled checkmate:
Another very thrilling recreation was GM Arjun Erigaisi‘s win vs. Carlsen. It was additionally a revenge for Erigaisi’s loss to the identical opponent within the Julius Baer Generation Cup ultimate final month.
“That felt actually good, I used to be actually pleased with the sport,” Erigaisi mentioned after the sport.
Especially 27.Qf7+ was a troublesome however nice determination, because the queen could be combining assault and protection from g6:
Abdusattorov began the second day with a loss towards GM Vidit Gujrathi however stored his slim lead within the standings as he bounced again with two straight wins and a draw. One of his wins was towards the star of the Chennai Olympiad, who was truly successful for a lot of the recreation.
Like Mamedyarov, Carlsen is just a degree behind the chief. In the ultimate spherical, the world champion managed to win a really drawish rook endgame vs. Vidit:
Aimchess Rapid | Round 8 Standings
| # | Fed | Name | Rtg | Perf |
| 1 | Abdusattorov, Nodirbek | 2678 | 17 | |
| 2 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | 2712 | 16 | |
| 3 | Carlsen, Magnus | 2902 | 16 | |
| 4 | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | 2754 | 15 | |
| 5 | Erigaisi Arjun | 2720 | 15 | |
| 6 | Gukesh D | 2606 | 12 | |
| 7 | Keymer, Vincent | 2740 | 12 | |
| 8 | Giri, Anish | 2737 | 12 | |
| 9 | Rapport, Richard | 2735 | 10 | |
| 10 | Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | 2691 | 10 | |
| 11 | Aditya Mittal | 2569 | 9 | |
| 12 | Naroditsky, Daniel | 2617 | 9 | |
| 13 | Anton Guijarro, David | 2706 | 5 | |
| 14 | Hansen, Eric | 2618 | 4 | |
| 15 | Harikrishna, Pentala | 2679 | 3 | |
| 16 | Grandelius, Nils | 2632 | 3 |
All video games rounds 5-8
The Aimchess Rapid, the seventh occasion within the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, takes place October 14-20, 2022 on chess24. The preliminaries include a round-robin amongst 16 gamers, from which the highest eight advance to the knockout stage. There, they play a match of 4 fast video games (15+10) in every spherical and if essential, a blitz + armageddon tiebreak. The prize fund is $150,000.
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