Teimour Radjabov won the $110,000 first prize at the FIDE World Cup after beating Ding Liren (who earned $80,000) in the 5+3 games of today’s final tiebreak. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave came in third ($60,000) as he beat Yu Yangyi ($50,000) in both rapid games.
The FIDE World Cup has been won by Levon Aronian (2005), Gata Kamsky (2007), Boris Gelfand (2009), Peter Svidler (2011), Vladimir Kramnik (2013), Sergey Karjakin (2015) and again Aronian (2017). Today a new name was added to this list of great players and fighters: Radjabov.