Anish Giri’s world chess championship hopes dented
With big guns Anish Giri and Shak Mamedyarov failing to catch Evgeny Tomashevsky at the FIDE Grand Prix in Tbilisi, the world championship cycle is wide open
By Malcolm Pein, Chess correspondent
12:15PM GMT 03 Mar 2015
The recently-concluded FIDE Grand Prix at Tbilisi left a dent in the ambitions of several top players hoping to qualify for the world championship cycle.
Shak Mamedyarov, a world title Candidate in 2013, and Anish Giri, now ensconced in the world top 10, both failed to challenge the runaway winner, Evgeny Tomashevsky.
When they played each other, there was no choice but to go all out for the win.
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