The closing ceremony of the Vugar Gashimov Chess Memorial was held in Shusha, the cultural capital of Azerbaijan.
As reported by Idman.biz, the Minister of Youth and Sports Farid Gayibov delivered a speech first at the event and touched on the importance of the competition.
The president of the Azerbaijan Chess Federation, Mahir Mammadov, said that the tournament was organized at a high level and the competition was fiercely contested.
At the ceremony, the representative of Shusha City State Reserve Ismayil Ismayilov was presented with a special award by the organizers of the tournament.
Then the final results of the tournament were announced. Thus, Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE) 1st, Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) 2nd, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 3rd, Valdislav Artemiev (FIDE) 4th, Aydin Suleymanli 5th, Aravind Chitambaram (India) 6th, Richard Rapport (Hungary) was 7th and Rauf Mammadov was 8th.
At the end, the winners was presented with trophy.
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