Teimour Radjabov is winner of the 2019 FIDE World Cup
Teimour Radjabov, one of the almost forgotten men of modern chess, has scored the greatest triumph of his career by beating top seed Ding Liren in tiebreaks to win the 2019 FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. World Champion Magnus Carlsen called the Azerbaijan grandmaster “an absolutely deserved winner” after Teimour ended a sequence of draws by winning both 5-minute blitz games against Ding Liren. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave said it was “very good to end on a high note” after he snatched third place by outplaying Yu Yangyi in the first two games of day.
And here’s our incredibly high-powered commentary on the final day. For Game 1 Jan Gustafsson was joined by 8-time Russian Champion Peter Svidler before World Champion Magnus Carlsen commentated from Game 2 onwards:
And on that note, it’s time to end our coverage of the 2019 FIDE World Cup. We hope you enjoyed it and will stick around for all the upcoming events, including, of course, the chess24 Banter Blitz Cup!
See also:
- Official website
- All the 2019 World Cup games with computer analysis on chess24
- Khanty World Cup 1.1: Rise of the teen stars
- Khanty World Cup 1.2: A Svidler masterpiece
- Khanty World Cup Round 1 Tiebreaks: Shankland & Adams out
- Khanty World Cup 2.1: Nakamura and Wei Yi lose
- Khanty World Cup 2.2: Naka out as Firouzja stars
- Khanty World Cup Round 2 Tiebreaks: Giri survives Armageddon
- Khanty World Cup 3.1: Seven on the brink
- Khanty World Cup 3.2: No way back
- Khanty World Cup Round 3 Tiebreaks: Xiong knocks out Giri
- Khanty World Cup 4.1: A bad day for the USA
- Khanty World Cup 4.2: So, Svidler and Nepo out
- Khanty World Cup Round 4 Tiebreaks: Xiong wins thriller
- Khanty World Cup QF 1: Who wants to win an exchange?
- Khanty World Cup QF 2: Ding & Radjabov reach semifinals
- Khanty World Cup QF Tiebreaks: Aronian & Vitiugov crash out
- Khanty World Cup SF: Radjabov crushes MVL’s dream
- Khanty World Cup SF Tiebreaks: Ding Liren does it again
- Khanty World Cup Final 1: A normal day
- Khanty World Cup Final 2: Ding Liren strikes
- Khanty World Cup Final 3: Never write off Radjabov!
- Khanty World Cup Final 4: Tiebreaks it is!
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