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Another competition has concluded in the "Chess Tour Azerbaijan" project, which is being implemented for the first time at the initiative of the Azerbaijan Chess Federation.
Idman.biz reports that the final round of games took place in the fifth competition of the project, the "Guba Open".
In group A of the festival, Khagan Ahmad surpassed all his rivals and won the title of winner of the competition. Evgeni Romanov, a representative of North Macedonia, who scored the same 7 points as Khagan Ahmad, finished the competition in second place according to additional indicators. Vugar Manafov, who scored 6.5 points in 9 rounds, finished in third place.
Hamza Rzazadeh took first place in tournament B with 8 points. Kanan Imranli and Elgun Malikov, with 7.5 points each, shared 2nd and 3rd places, respectively.
Vugar Manafov won the rapid tournament held as part of the festival. Suleyman Suleymanli, who had the same score, was content with second place. Interestingly, these chess players also finished in the top spots in the blitz tournament. In blitz, Suleyman Suleymanli was first and Vugar Manafov was second.
It should be noted that 237 chess players from 10 countries competed in the "Guba Open" festival. Chess players from Azerbaijan, Germany, Israel, Kuwait, Ukraine, Latvia, Turkey, Georgia, North Macedonia and India participated in the competition.
The next competition of the Azerbaijan Chess Tour will be the "Vugar Gashimov Open", which will be held in Baku.
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