Mamedyarov, S. – Rapport, R.

2747 2022 · Draw

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, the Azerbaijani grandmaster who thrives in wildly complicated positions, faces Richard Rapport, the Romanian-Hungarian grandmaster whose utterly unconventional style and surprising opening choices regularly leave opponents baffled from move one. In this Modern Defence, two players who actively seek originality and avoid well-trodden theory go head-to-head in a high-level battle of improvisation.