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The Cuban-American Leinier Domínguez wrapped up a strong performance, finishing undefeated in the World Rapid Championship that concluded on December 28 in Doha, Qatar.
Leinier concluded that he finished with six victories and seven draws after the tiebreaker system, in a tournament dominated by the Norwegian star Magnus Carlsen.
According to the independent Cuban media Swing Completo, this position generates a profit of 23 thousand euros for the güinero.
Following Carlsen were Vladislav Artemiev, Arjun Erigaisi, and Hans Hoke Niemann.
The victories of the Cuban GM came against the Icelandic player Vignir Vatnar Stefansson (2463 Elo), the Kazakh Rinat Jumabayev (2543), the Indian Sandipan Chanda (2553), the Venezuelan Eduardo Iturrizaga (2605), the Azerbaijani Rauf Mamedov (2610), and the Turkish Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus (2446).
He also faced the Russian Savva Vetokhin (2486), the Iranian M. Amin Tabatabaei (2579), the Indian Aravindh Chithambaram (2590), the Russians Nikita Petrov (2543), Vladislav Artemiev (2727), and Aleksandr Shimanov (2554), as well as the Argentine prodigy Faustino Oro (2489).
Leinier, who arrived at the tournament with a rapid Elo of 2703, scored 2.5 points, which brings him to 15th place in the world ranking in this category.
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