Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won a lost position against Pavel Eljanov in Round 3 of the Gashimov Memorial to snatch the lead, and has held on to it ever since. Vladimir Kramnik won a great game against Harikrishna with a rook sacrifice that was two parts desperation, three parts genius, but then the very next day lost both a game and the world no. 2 spot to Wesley So. Both those games are analysed by Jan Gustafsson, while Pepe Cuenca takes us through a brilliant win for Sergey Karjakin over Veselin Topalov.

You can play through all the games from the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir using the selector below, or hover over a player’s name to see his results so far: read more

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