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Uzbekistan’s GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov leads the preliminaries of the Aimchess Rapid match after 4 rounds of play. It was GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who stole the present, beating GM Magnus Carlsen and, brilliantly, GM Anish Giri.
The Aimchess Rapid match is already the final “common” within the 2022 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, earlier than the end-of-season last occasion which begins on November 14. Aimchess Rapid options 16 gamers in a round-robin prelim stage earlier than the sphere is lower to eight and knockouts start.
The first 4 rounds of these preliminaries had been performed on Friday, with Abdusattorov reaching the best rating: three wins and a draw, good for 10 out of a doable 12 factors. His strongest opponent was GM Richard Rapport, who was below strain from the beginning of the endgame:
“It’s fairly good to start out with three wins,” stated Abdusattorov. “I simply wish to play some fascinating video games, to see what I can study from them. Today was an excellent day clearly.”
Mamedyarov scored two positive wins on the primary day. For starters, he took down Carlsen within the very first spherical, principally due to a giant, one-move mistake by the world champion:
In his white subsequent recreation, Mamedyarov threw all the things however the kitchen sink towards Giri: he sacrificed a pawn, an change, a chunk, after which a queen!
Giri had simply performed a pleasant, sacrificial recreation himself the spherical earlier than:
Aimchess Rapid | Round 4 Standings
| # | Fed | Name | Rtg | Perf |
| 1 | Abdusattorov, Nodirbek | 2678 | 10/12 | |
| 2 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | 2712 | 7/12 | |
| 3 | Carlsen, Magnus | 2902 | 7/12 | |
| 4 | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | 2754 | 7/12 | |
| 5 | Keymer, Vincent | 2740 | 7/12 | |
| 6 | Rapport, Richard | 2735 | 7/12 | |
| 7 | Gukesh D | 2606 | 6/12 | |
| 8 | Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi | 2691 | 5/12 | |
| 9 | Erigaisi Arjun | 2720 | 5/12 | |
| 10 | Aditya Mittal | 2569 | 5/12 | |
| 11 | Giri, Anish | 2737 | 4/12 | |
| 12 | Naroditsky, Daniel | 2617 | 4/12 | |
| 13 | Anton Guijarro, David | 2706 | 3/12 | |
| 14 | Hansen, Eric | 2618 | 2/12 | |
| 15 | Harikrishna, Pentala | 2679 | 2/12 | |
| 16 | Grandelius, Nils | 2632 | 1/12 |
All video games rounds 1-4
The Aimchess Rapid, the seventh occasion within the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, takes place October 14-20, 2022 on chess24. The preliminaries is 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 crucial, a blitz + armageddon tiebreak. The prize fund is $150,000.
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