HAVANA, Cuba, May 14 (acn) Cuban Leinier Dominguez will face today Italian Fabiano Caruana in the beginning of the Chess Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk, attended by 12 elite Grand Masters.
The event organizers reported that this will be Leinier´s (2 734 Elo points) tenth conventional game against Caruana (2803) where they have achieved two wins per capita and five draws.
The Russians Dmitry Jakovenko (2738) and Sergey Karjakin (2753), American Hikaru Nakamura (2799) and Dutch Anish Giri (2676) will be the next opponents of the leader of the Latin American ranking.
Then he will face Israeli Boris Gelfand (2744), Russians Peter Svidler (2734) and Evgeny Tomashevsky (2749), Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2754), Georgian Baduur Jobava (2699) and Russian Alexander Grischuk (2780).
This will be the fourth phase of a circuit released last year in Baku, where Caruana and Gelfand shared the top and Leinier finished last among 12 contestants.
In Tashkent the monarch was Russian Dmitry Andreikin, and Tomashevsky reigned in Tbilisi, a key performance to gain 252 units with which he tops the standings where Leinier appears last.
Nakamura and Caruana show 230 and 207 points, in that order, and are the other strong candidates for the two tickets to the challengers' match, special attraction of an event that requires three appearances per player.
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