Gukesh vs Nijat Abasov, FIDE Chess Candidates 2024: Round 5 match highlights

FIDE Candidates 2024: India’s D. Gukesh got the better of Azerbaijan’s Nijat Abasov in the fifth round.

Published : Apr 09, 2024 23:37 IST , CHENNAI - 2 MINS READ

D. Gukesh faces Nijat Abasov in the fifth round of Candidates 2024.
D. Gukesh faces Nijat Abasov in the fifth round of Candidates 2024. | Photo Credit: Sportstar
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D. Gukesh faces Nijat Abasov in the fifth round of Candidates 2024. | Photo Credit: Sportstar

India’s D. Gukesh beat Azerbaijan’s Nijat Abasov in the fifth round of the FIDE Candidates tournament at the Great Hall in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday.

Check out the board below to follow all moves from the match

ROUND 5 PAIRINGS

Open

Alireza Firouzja - Hikaru Nakamura

Gukesh D - Nijat Abasov

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi - Fabiano Caruana

Praggnanandhaa R - Ian Nepomniachtchi

Women’s

Lei Tingjie - Kateryna Lagno

Vaishali Rameshbabu - Anna Muzychuk

Humpy Koneru - Aleksandra Goryachkina

Tan Zhongyi - Nurgyul Salimova

TOURNAMENT FORMAT

Both the Candidates and the Women’s Candidates are a double round-robin tournament with each player playing the rest of the field twice in a total of 14 rounds.

Players get 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.

TIME CONTROL

The time control for the open category is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move 41.

For the women’s category, it is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move one.

PRIZE MONEY

The prize money for the open category is €48,000 (INR 43.48 Lakh) for first place, €36,000 for second place, and €24,000 for third place (with players on the same number of points sharing prize money, irrespective of tie-breaks), plus €3,500 per half-point for every player, for a total prize pool of €500,000.

In the women’s candidates, the prize money is half that of the open category, with the winner getting €24,000, €18,000 for second place, and €12,000 for third place.

In addition, €1,750 per half-point for every player, for a total prize pool of €250,000.

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