GM Nodirbek Yakubboev gained the 2024 Abu Dhabi Chess Pageant’s Masters match and the $30,000 test that belonged to it. The Uzbek grandmaster edged out GMs David Paravyan, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Amin Tabatabaei, Leon Luke Mendonca, and IM Daniel Quizon on tiebreaks.
The very robust thirtieth version of the Abu Dhabi Chess Pageant passed off August 14-25 within the five-star St. Regis Abu Dhabi Corniche Lodge and included many alternative occasions, together with tournaments for youngsters, juniors and seniors, authorities departments, and embassies.
The principle occasion, the Masters, was a nine-round Swiss with 217 members from 46 completely different federations, together with 50 grandmasters. Ending in a bunch of six gamers on seven factors, Yakubboev gained the match on Buchholz: the quantity of factors scored by his opponents multiplied by his personal rating. His was half a degree greater than Paravyan’s, a tiny distinction of virtually $20,000, for the reason that different gamers within the tie shared their prizes:
Yakubboev’s fortune adopted a stable however not spectacular match by which he remained undefeated. The Uzbek grandmaster began with three wins towards gamers rated below 2500 and later scored 2.5/3 towards gamers rated below 2600, whereas drawing with the three 2600 gamers he confronted.
His sport within the third spherical was good:
Within the last spherical, Yakubboev was below strain towards Mendonca, who positively had some possibilities to win that hefty first prize himself however let his opponent get away:
The opposite Uzbek on the rostrum, Vokhidov, was even nearer to match victory. He gained a pawn early in his sport with Paravyan and finally reached a profitable rook endgame however did not convert. What a distinction a test makes!
The odd identify within the group of gamers on the high is Quizon from the Philippines, the one non-grandmaster on seven factors. With a efficiency score of 2749 towards a subject that included six GMs, that was clearly sufficient for a GM norm.
Within the last spherical, he beat the robust Indian grandmaster Narayanan S.L. in a King’s Indian:
One of many aspect occasions was a powerful on-line blitz occasion that consisted of an 11-round Swiss adopted by a knockout, finally gained by GM Hikaru Nakamura. Beneath you possibly can see him streaming the occasion.
The thirtieth Abu Dhabi Chess Pageant 2024 Masters passed off August 15-24, 2024, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The format was a nine-round Swiss. The time management was 90 minutes for the complete sport plus a 30-second increment beginning on transfer one. The prize fund was $63,600.
