2024-04-13 18:59:24
İdman.biz reports that Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri spoke about the participation of Azerbaijani chess player Nijat Abasov in the candidates’ tournament.
“The first one who sits at the board with Nijat, playing white, will know that if he does not win this game, he will already be an outsider, because the chance has been missed. And this creates a situation where one of the participants is obliged to win.
If you are playing against Nijat as white and want to win the Candidates Tournament, then this is the game you should try to win, right? And this creates an imbalance, others begin to think: “Okay, this one won against Nijat, it’s not a fact that I will also win against him, so maybe it’s worth playing it safe and trying to win against someone else now, just to be sure.” This intensifies the race. And this is exactly what is needed for the tournament to be interesting, so I think it’s great that Nijat is playing in it,” the Levitov about Chess telegram channel quotes the chess player with reference to the New In Chess Podcast.
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