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Leinier Dominguez Unbeaten After Four
Rounds at Championship of Spanish Chess Clubs
HAVANA, Cuba, Nov
24 (acn) Cuban Grand Master (GM) Leinier Dominguez beat Armenian GM
Gabriel Sargissian and Ukrainian GM Sergey Fedorchuk on Wednesday
and thus remained undefeated after three days of competition in the
Division of Honor of the Spanish Championship of Chess Clubs that is
under way in the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
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Dominguez —the best-ranked Latin
American player with an ELO rating of
2,712 points— played with the black pieces and beat Sargissian
(2,671)
after 57 moves of a Benko Gambit. Later, with the white pieces,
he downed
Fedorchuk (2,632) after 46 moves of an English Opening.
With these victories, Dominguez has 3.5 points out of four
possible as he
previously beat Russian GM Alexey Dreev on Monday and drew with
Spanish
Francisco Vallejo on Tuesday.
The Cuban player is defending the first board of the Sestao
Naturgas
Energía club, one of the pre-tournament favorite teams to win
the event,
which is leading the tournament with 15 units.
After Wednesday’s double round, the Sestao Naturgas is followed
by Gros
Xake Taldea, with 13 points. Colegio Markote and CA Solvay share
the third
and fourth spots with 11.5 units apiece. CA Linex-Magic is fifth
with
nine; while CA Reverte Albox Cajacanarias close the standings
with only
six points apiece.
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