Shamkir Chess 2014 - Group A

Carlsen, Magnus vs. Radjabov, Teimour

Shamkir Chess 2014 consists of two tournaments in memory of Vugar Gashimov, April 20th-30th. The B tournament features ten players — five from Azerbaijan (Eltaj Safarli, Nijat Abbasov, Gadir Guseinov, Rauf Mamedov, Vasif Durabeyli) and five from abroad (Hao Wang from China, Pavel Eljanov from Ukraine, Etienne Bacrot from France, Radoslaw Wojtaszek from Poland, and the European Individual champion Alexander Motylev from Russia). The prize fund for this tournament will be €30,000. The games will be held in Heydar Aliyev Center, Shamkir. Located in the northern foothills of the Lesser Caucasus, on the coast of the Chagirchay River, Shamkir is the 8th largest city in Azerbaijan.