HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 16 (acn) The Cuban Leinier Domínguez had good performances today and appears fifth after three rounds in the Basque system in the Chess Mind Games, tournament held in the Chinese capital.
Apparently Leinier has very good results when playing two simultaneous games with the same opponent as he earned 3.5 points from a possible six, including wins in two of the matches.
Leinier, who had not good performances in the Rapid and Blitz events, now beat 1.5-0.5 Polish Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov, according to reports on the official site.
Even he was beaten, with the same score, by Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi, the Cuban now owns good balance and is only surpassed by his victimizer, current leader so far with 4.5 units, as the European also achieved 1.5 when facing his compatriot Alexander Grischuk and Frenchman Etienne Bracot.
The Indian Pentala Harikrishna ranks second among the 16 players with four points, followed by Grischuk and Azerbaijani Teimour Radjabov (3.5 units), but with better tiebreaker than Leinier.
The competition among women is led by the host Xue Zhao with 5.5 points and is escorted by her compatriot Yifan Hou (5) and Indian Humphy Koneru (4.5).
The two rounds will be played tomorrow to end a singular contest that usually closes the season and manages to bring together major players in the world in both sexes.
The Chess Mind Games, which began on June 11, awarded medals in the 20 and three minutes games, known as rapid and Blitz modalities, and in both cases Grischuk took the gold among men.
Among women, the Russian Valentina Gunina won the rapid event and Chinese Yifan reigned in the Blitz.
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