The Cuban Lisandra Ordaz he held his pulse American Jennifer Yu and became the only Cuban player who will be present in the second round of the Chess World Cup that takes place in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
After his victory of the eveOrdaz (2318 ELO) led white equipment and appeased all threats from Yu (2303), who treasures two titles in the strong national championship of his country.
Thus, the Pinar del Río will face a very tough adversary in the next stagethe young Russian Aleksandra Goryachkina (2557), a Grand Master without distinction of sex who was a challenger for the world crown in 2020 and is third in the current female ranking.
The other two Cubans in competition, Yerisbel Miranda and Yaniela Forgás, tied their respective matches and were eliminated, since yesterday they had left through the narrow door. However, each one guaranteed three thousand dollars, while Ordaz guaranteed a minimum of six thousand.
Regarding the Open tournament, Carlos Daniel Albornoz (2591) and Luis Ernesto Quesada (2553) divided the point again against the Kazakh Alisher Suleymenov (2499) and the Turkish Emre Cam (2570), respectively, so they will have to discuss their permanence in the tiebreakers at an accelerated pace.
The great figure of Cuban chess, the now United States representative Leinier Domínguez (2,739), was bye along with a large group of high-ranking chess players and his opponent in the second round will be the winner in the tiebreaker between the young Poles Igor Janik (2,548) and Szymon Gumularz (2,577).
It is worth noting that the International Master of Cuban origin Roberto Carlos Sánchez (2444), nationalized Panamanian, tied his series against the strong local player Eltaj Safarlu (2607)who lost by default after easily winning the first game of the dual meet.
The Cup will last until August 24 and will distribute an unprecedented total of 2.5 million dollars, in addition to the fact that for the first time it will grant three places for the Candidates tournaments both in the Open (206 registered players) and in the Women’s ( 103).
