Wednesday Workout: Gashimov Memorial, Part 1

This week's Wednesday Workout starts a two-part series on the 2023 Gashimov Memorial rapid and blitz event, featuring a number of prominent top players. Played in Azerbaijan in honor of the late Azeri great, Indian GM Vidit Gujrathi won with a score of 5/9 in the rapid and and 12/18 in the blitz, totaling a 22/36 score (as rapid games counted for two points each). Vidit finished a half-point ahead of countryman GM Arjun Erigaisi, and Romanian GM Richard Rapport was third with 19/36. The quartet of Azeri participants, finished fourth-through-seventh, with GMs Aydin Suleymanli and Rauf Mamedov each on 18½/36 and their more famous counterparts GMs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov each on an even 18/36. Dutch GM Jorden Van Foreest was eighth, the only Azeri in the 2024 Candidates GM Nijat Abasov was ninth, and Israeli former World Champion runner-up GM Boris Gelfand was tenth. 

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