The second stage of the 2014-2015 FIDE Grand Prix took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The tournament ran from October 20th to November 3rd, 2014. Some of the strongest players in the world competed 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.

Closing Ceremony

When all was said and done, Andreikin, Nakamura and Mamedyarov were the big winners from Tashkent. Andreikin takes home the 20.000 Euros and 170 Grand Prix points.

A young fan takes the opportunity to get a once-in-a-lifetime autograph

Press officer Anastasiya Karlovich and FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Nakamura tied for second. In the Grand Prix money and GP Points are split with the people that are in a tie.

Mamedyarov was the other player tied for second, Nakamura counts how many GP points he has now

Andreikin showed solid chess and punished his opponent's for their mistakes; that was his key to success this time around

The podium: Nakamura, Mamedyarov, Andreikin

What can you do?! Gelfand went from first in Baku to last in Tashkent

As usual the GP closes with a nice dinner for the players, the organization and the accompaning people

Karlovich, Jobava and Kasimdzhanov posing for a picture. MVL is too busy for that.

Grand Prix Standings

Of course this tournament brings big changes to the standings of the Grand Prix series. With neither Caruana nor Gelfand having a great tournament, the GP series certainly opens up to several other people. Here are the standings:

	Player	FIDE rating Sep 2014	Baku	Tashkent	Tbilisi	Khanty- Mansiysk	Total
1	Fabiano Caruana	2801	155	75		x	230
2	Hikaru Nakamura	2782	82	125		x	207
3	Dmitry Andreikin	2722	20	170	x		190
4	Boris Gelfand	2748	155	15		x	170
5	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2756	35	125	x		160
6	Sergey Karjakin	2777	82	75		x	157
7	Teimour Radjabov	2717	50	50	x		100
8	Alexander Grischuk	2789	82		x	x	82
8	Peter Svidler	2732	82		x	x	82
8	Evgeny Tomashevsky	2701	82		x	x	82
11	Baadur Jobava	2717		75	x	x	75
11	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2768		75	x	x	75
13	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	2706	35	15	x		50
14	Anish Giri	2758		40	x	x	40
15	Dmitry Jakovenko	2747		30	x	x	30
16	Leinier Dominguez	2756	10		x	x	10

We are half way through the series already since it was shortened to only four tournaments this time around. Caruana's performance in Tashkent wasn't spectacular but certainly not dismal. His 75 points are good enough to put him still at the top, 23 points ahead of Nakamura. Andreikin's fantastic Tashkent helps a lot, but unfortunately for him his performance in Baku was far from good, same with Mamedyarov.

Both Nakamura and Caruana will skip Tbilisi and instead will play in the final tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, this means that the players that qualify from the GP will not be set in the Georgian capital.

Standings

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