After agreeing to a draw on the last day of the Sinquefield Chess Cup, Cuban nationalizer America, Linear Dominguez, finished second to win a $65,000 prize.
He Grandmaster of Cuban descent He drew in the last round against Levon Aronian, and through this match he managed to add 11.2 elo points, additionally climbing to seventh place in the world ranking.
Fabiano Caruana, who won the tournament, took home an unimaginable sum of $100,000.
The big news for days was that Linear arrived at the final date of the Sinquefield Cup, and while that didn’t happen, with the points he added to his coefficient, he fully entered the fight for classification. As our expert Eduardo González Martínez makes clear, the competition of candidates.
However, FIDE has made a “clarification”, which seems to be a kind of “anti-linear” rule, which is nothing more than the original rules set for the classification of the Candidates Tournament, which directly affects one of the best Cuban chess. Players in history.
On the subject, chess24 asked Dominguez if he had to play a tournament outside the US to qualify for the Candidates Tournament due to the recent FIDE rule change. “Should I?”
“Yes. “It’s a good opportunity,” Linear said. “I mean, obviously it’s not every day you get the chance to fight for a spot in the nominations.”
Not looking for it, he faces a date with history: He could become only the second Cuban (though he now plays for the United States) to enter the Candidates tournament, a feat accomplished by Grandmaster Jesus Nogueiras when he previously qualified. Taxco Interzonal 1985.
However, he will have to comply with the controversial FIDE inclusion when he seeks to increase his Elo so that he surpasses Wesley Chow (if he does not qualify through the FIDE circuit).
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