Round 8 results:
| Dominguez, Leinier | – Timofeev, Artyom | ½-½ | |||
| Meier, Georg | – Savchenko, Boris | ½-½ | |||
| Bruzon, Lazaro | – Khenkin, Igor | ½-½ |
Standings after 8 rounds:
| 1. | Dominguez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2721 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 2. | Meier, Georg | g | GER | 2641 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 3. | Khenkin, Igor | g | GER | 2630 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 4. | Savchenko, Boris | g | RUS | 2655 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 5. | Bruzon, Lazaro | g | CUB | 2617 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 6. | Timofeev, Artyom | g | RUS | 2677 | 2½ |
Official website: http://www.capablanca.co.cu/
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Dominguez is now the top player in America.
This is a disappointing tournament with two of today’s games having finished in ten and twelve moves, respectively. Seems like the players do not really want to play.
If you think about it, you really have to be fighter to not agreed to a short draw in Cuba, in the middle of the summer…in havana city, play a game for 6 hours everyday?