Carlsen Triumphs at Gashimov Memorial 2019

In the Gashimov memorial tournament which concluded on 09-April-2019, World Champion Magnus Carlsen won 5 games to win the event with a round to spare with a score of 7/9, an astounding 2991 ELO performance. This was the most dominating victory since Fabiano Caruana's win at the 2014 Sinquefield Cup. Ding Liren and Sergey Karjakin came 2nd and 3rd respectively with a decent 5/9. Besides the top three prize winners, the field included Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vishy Anand, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Teimour Radjabov, Veselin Topalov and David Navara.

This was the sixth edition of this event held yearly in memory of Vugar Gashimov, the world no. 6 in 2009, who died tragically at 27 due to brain tumor in January 2014.