Cuban GM Dominguez with Discreet Performance in World Mind Games
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Cuban Leinier Domínguez could just earned four points yester day and now appears eleventh in the Blitz Tournament of the World Mind Chess Games, headquartered in Beijing, China's capital.
On Sunday, in the 10 rounds scheduled to three minutes per match, the Caribbean achieved two wins, four draws and four losses with which he totaled 8.5 units.
Leinier´s victims were Polish Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Hungarian Peter Leko, and had good performances when drawing with the French Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Russian Alexander Grischuk.
The two latter had an amazing performance on Sunday and now are on vanguard of the contest by accumulating 14 and 13 points, respectively.
The Frenchman, who now appears fifth, reached seven wins, two draws and only one loss, while Grischuk managed to win six times, one against the leader.
Precisely Grischuk won just two days ago the rapid matches event (20 minutes games), in which Leinier won three points in seven outings.
The Blitz event ends today with 10 matches to reach the 30 scheduled by the Swiss system to double round.
In the women´s contest, the hostess and world champion Hou Yifan is the current leader with 14.5 points, half more than Russian Valentina Gunina, who won the rapid matches event .
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