Tbilisi Rd11: Peaceful end

The third stage of the 2014-2015 FIDE Grand Prix is taking place in Tbilisi, Georgia. The tournament will run from February 14th to February 28, 2014. Some of the strongest players in the world will compete in a Round Robin event. The winner and runner-up of the Grand Prix series will earn their spot at the 2016 Candidate's Tournament.

Final Round

Shhhhhhhh!

Tomashevsky, Evgeny ½-½ Radjabov, Teimour
Another h3 King's Indian with opposite side castling. These types of positions are still difficult to understand, and it is not always clear if Black has enough counterplay for some of his positional weaknesses. Today Radjabov seemed to have just enough with his central control to fight the powerfully placed white knights and a repetition finished the game.

Anastasiya Karlovich and Evgeny Tomashevsky
on the tournament winner's last postmortem

Everyone is tired by the end of the tournament

Jobava, Baadur ½-½ Andreikin, Dmitry

Jobava chose a risky last round approach. What else could we expect?

With the tournament over with, it is time to sign autographs!

Jakovenko, Dmitry ½-½ Kasimdzhanov, Rustam
Jakovenko's minimal edge from the opening didn't promise anything special. Kasimzdhanov was able to trade the correct pieces and secure a draw.

Jakovenko only won two games, but with no losses that was good enough for clear second

Grischuk, Alexander ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime
Grischuk saw himself in a slightly uncomfortable position. This reverse Sicilian didn't bring him much, and when MVL put a knight on d4 it was clear that only Black could be better. However the opposite colored bishops gave Grischuk all the resources he needed to hold the draw in the endgame.

Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar ½-½ Svidler, Peter
Another Grunfeld, this time the repetition was found as early as move ten.

The press conference lasted longer than the game

Giri, Anish ½-½ Dominguez, Leinier
One of the hardest fought games of the day, a closed Bogo-Indian position that left Giri with some advantage on the queenside. Despite the lack of space, Dominguez was quite successful at turtling in and trying to defend his position. Giri maneuvered left and right and tried to break through, but never found a way to do so.

A hard-fought game

The commentary team of Tornike Sainkidize and Keti Tsatsalashvili have finished their job

Finally, can you guess which player wasn't so respectful of his opponent's side of the table?

Look forward tomorrow to a recap of the tournament, pictures from the closing ceremony and an overview of how this affects the Grand Prix standings going into Khanty-Mansiysk, the final GP venue.

Standings

Final Round Games

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Photos from the official website by Maria Emelianova

Schedule

Links Official tournament site All games in PGN The games will be broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase 13 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs.