7 Rounds of FIDE Grand Prix Leg Played in Palma de Mallorca

Evgeny Tomashevsky contains Alexander Grishuk’s rivals.

Round 7 games of the final leg of the FIDE Grand Prix Series 2016-2017 were played in Palma de Mallorca. Evgeny Tomashevsky made an important draw with black pieces against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. It is to be recalled that Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Alexander Grischuk are leading the GP Series being pursued by MVL and Teimour Radjabov who should show a high individual results to qualify for the Candidates Tournament. 

Other results: Pavel Eljanov defeated Jon Ludvig Hammer, Teimour Radjabov bested Li Chao, Alexander Riazantsev lost to Boris Gelfand, while the games Rapport - Aronian, Svidler - Nakamura, Jakovenko - Harikrishna, Ding Liren - Giri, and Inarkiev - Vallejo ended in a draw.

Standings after round 7:

1. Levon Aronian - 4.5
2-9. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, Ding Liren, Peter Svidler, Pentala Harikrishna, Dmitry Jakovenko, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Richard Rapport - 4 
10-13. Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov, Pavel Eljanov, Ernesto Inarkiev - 3.5
14. Francisco Vallejo Pons - 3
15-17. Li Chao, Boris Gelfand, Alexander Riazantsev - 2.5
18. Jon Ludvig Hammer - 2

Round 8 pairings:

Aronian - Tomashevsky, Nakamura - Harikrishna, Svidler - Ding Liren, Rapport - Jakovenko, Inarkiev - Vachier-Lagrave, Vallejo - Eljanov, Li Chao - Giri, Gelfand - Radjabov, Hammer - Riazantsev.



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