Dominguez Wins Capablanca Memorial

Submitted by SonofPearl on Fri, 06/19/2009 at 10:02am.

The 44th Capablanca Memorial tournament was held in Havana from 8-18 June.

In the elite group, Leinier Dominguez (pictured) was the top seed, and he won the 6-player double round-robin event with a score of 6.5/10. Dominguez clinched the victory with an impressive final round win against his nearest rival, Georg Meier of Germany.

All of Dominguez' wins are shown below.

The official tournament website is here. The final standings were:

Dominguez Perez, Leinier (CUB)	2721	6½
Savchenko, Boris (RUS)	2655	5½
Meier, Georg (GER)	2641	5
Khenkin, Igor (GER)	2630	4½
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB)	2617	4½
Timofeev, Artyom (RUS)	2677	4

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by beginner_sm - 4 months ago
Hyderabad India

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oh! didn't see that. thanks a lot, Ryan.

by SonofPearl - 4 months ago
Wales

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@beginner_sm After 41.Qxf2 Qc1 check forks the white king and rook, so black wins a piece.

by beginner_sm - 4 months ago
Hyderabad India

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Can someone please tell me why the White resigned after 40... Rxf2 in the first game?

by orlndgrdn - 4 months ago
florida Cuba

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Leinier Dominguez is the best chess player of Cuba after Capablanca ; he like the great Cuban champion usually don'tget over worming advance in the opening but he has superlative end game and is capable of beating any grand master , his ranting speak for him ( 2721) impressively.

Cubans that love this game like me are proud of him.

by SilentWalker - 4 months ago
Milpitas, CA United States

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As for the Aristotle post - don't listen to that stuff. Just play chess!

by littleAlekhine - 4 months ago
Stuttgart Germany

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Congrats to Dominguez!

And also Gongrats to Georg Meier!

I played against Meier 2 years ago (of course I lost), he becomes better and better :)

by Al_Qamar - 4 months ago
Uzbekistan

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nice

by tanmay_chakrabarti - 4 months ago
Uttarpara India

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Great games indeed.

by hwatuseke - 4 months ago
Jakarta Indonesia

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Aristotle: convey When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

Take your chess board and please do example as they play, if smoothly and please do not hesitate to play a stronger friend of you.

by gabrielconroy - 4 months ago
London United Kingdom

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I liked the win against Meier, almost Capablanca-esque how cleanly he finished that game off.

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