Teimour Radjabov 🇦🇿 won the $110,000 first prize at the FIDE World Cup after beating Ding Liren 🇨🇳 (who earned $80,000) in the 5+3 games of this Friday’s final tiebreak. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 came third ($60,000) as he beat Yu Yangyi 🇨🇳 ($50,000) in both rapid games.
The FIDE World Cup has been won by Levon Aronian 🇦🇲 (2005), Gata Kamsky 🇺🇸 (2007), Boris Gelfand 🇮🇱 (2009), Peter Svidler 🇷🇺 (2011), Vladimir Kramnik 🇷🇺 (2013), Sergey Karjakin 🇷🇺 (2015) and again Aronian (2017). Now a new name is added to this list of great players and fighters: Teimour Radjabov.
Staying remarkably cool and showing fighting spirit at the moment when it counted, the 32-year-old Azerbaijani defeated 26-year-old Ding, the top seed in the tournament, in the five-minute portion of the tiebreak.
The FIDE World Cup took place from September 9 to October 4 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia 🇷🇺. Each round consisted of two classical games and a tiebreak on the third day. The final consisted of four classical games. Both Radjabov and Ding are qualified to the 2020 Candidates’ Tournament.
