GM Nodirbek Yakubboev won the 2024 Abu Dhabi Chess Festival’s Masters tournament and the $30,000 check that belonged to it. The Uzbek grandmaster edged out GMs David Paravyan, Shamsiddin Vokhidov, Amin Tabatabaei, Leon Luke Mendonca, and IM Daniel Quizon on tiebreaks.
The very strong 30th edition of the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival took place August 14-25 in the five-star St. Regis Abu Dhabi Corniche Hotel and included many different events, including tournaments for children, juniors and seniors, government departments, and embassies.
The main event, the Masters, was a nine-round Swiss with 217 participants from 46 different federations, including 50 grandmasters. Finishing in a group of six players on seven points, Yakubboev won the tournament on Buchholz: the amount of points scored by his opponents multiplied by his own score. His was half a point more than Paravyan’s, a tiny difference of almost $20,000, since the other players in the tie shared their prizes:
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