Tabatabaei Beats So In Round 2 of the Grand Prix Semifinals
Round 2 of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 semifinals ended with Tabatabaei winning against So and Mamedyarov drawing against Nakamura. With these results, both pairings move to the semifinals tiebreaks.
In Round 2 Tabatabaei was in a must-win situation, while Nakamura and Mamedyarov had equal chances of moving to the finals with the second having the advantage of the white pieces.
Iranian GM Amin Tabatabaei bounced back from his Round 1 loss and managed to win a very complicated game against So. The two GMs will face each other at the tiebreaks for a spot at the FIDE Grand Prix finals.
“My opponent is a great player, fighting, very aggressive, very tactical. And yeah, I just blundered Rd3 – that’s all I can say about the game. Blunders happen.” So said about Tabatabaei at their post-game interview.
The second game of Round 2 of the FIDE Grand Prix semifinals between Mamedyarov and Nakamura ended in a draw.
With today’s results, both So-Tabatabaei and Mamedyarov-Nakamura move to the tiebreaks.
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