MOSCOW, Oct 28 Fischer Chess, which takes place in Reykjavik (Iceland). On the third game day of group A, Nepomniachtchi played four games, in which he scored two victories and suffered two defeats. In the first game, the Russian lost with white to the representative of Uzbekistan Nodirbek Abdusattorov, then lost to him with black, after which he first defeated the Icelander Hjorvar Stein Gretarsson with black and then with white. In group B, Vladimir Fedoseev met with the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and the German Mattias Bluebaum. In the first game, the Russian played a draw with the Norwegians with white pieces, and in the second game he lost to him with black ones. Then Fedoseev defeated Bluebaum with black pieces, and then lost to him with white pieces. At the end of the final day, Nodirbek Abdusattorov became the winner of group A with 10 points. The second place went to Ian Nepomniachtchi (7), the third — the American Wesley So (6), the fourth — Hjorvar Stein Gretarsson (1). Magnus Carlsen won Group B with 9 points. The American Hikaru Nakamura (9) is in second position, Vladimir Fedoseev is in third (5), and Matthias Bluebaum is in fourth (1). Nepomniachtchi. The World Championship is held according to the rules created by the 11th world champion American Robert Fisher, according to which competitions are held not with a fixed, but with an arbitrary (possibly 960 options) initial arrangement of figures. The time control for this tournament is 25 minutes for 30 moves plus 5 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 5 seconds per move starting from move 31. The prize fund of the competition is 400 thousand dollars.
