And final between Abdusattorov and Erigaisi! 1st game, guess what… Nodirbek was worse in the opening, then he was much better in the middlegame, then lost in the middlegame, then was winning in the endgame… Uzbekistani’s and Indian’s fans were probably having Toronto-like emotional ups and downs?!😵💫 finally, it’s a draw, wow! Second and decisive game : Erigaisi-Abdusattorov, if not on C-podcast, then somewhere else, Arjun is going to regret it (as Caruana did, though comparing these two misses, one in classical and going for tie-breaks for the World Championship Match Qualification and another in Supertournament blitz tie-break is different, but certainly hurts, this way). The Rb3 and Ra1 sequence, that he would find in any other tournament game or probably even blitz game elsewhere, he missed and still had a decent position, but threw it away together with the 1st place… and Abdusattorov, what can I say? Great fighter, very polite guy off the board…(hopefully, one that says to Giri, hello, how are you? How is life? I have novelty for you tomorrow this and that…) lucky, well, probably deserves it with his way of playing and work ethics? Anyway good to see such players thrive as our game gets even more exciting! Thanks to the tournament in Sweden, we had great fun following some very rare match-ups!
