Despite having 7.5 out of 8 points after eight rounds and one point ahead of GM Yakubboev, Jobava needed at least a draw in the final ninth round to secure the title. As it turned out Jobava chose to play the Slav Defense and the players entered a variation that is known to be equal, […]
Jobava played his signature b3 opening for the first time in the tournament and the middle-game turned out to be very complex. Bartel came into time trouble and did a decisive mistake and Jobava won his 7th game out of 8! An incredible performance. A draw will be enough tomorrow to secure the title. Please […]
Everything comes to an end, but still today’s draw vs GM Ni Hua was a decent result with the black pieces. Jobava concluded the game as follows: “The top Chinese players are always hard to beat. It was a good game from both of us and he defended well in the middle-game where I created […]
Today Jobava faced the current World Junior Champion GM Parham Maghsoodloo in the sixth round of Abu Dhabi Masters and it turned into a very creative, tactical and sharp game. “This game was a continuation from last night’s final rounds’ blitz game where I also faced Maghsoodloo with the white pieces. Yesterday I played d4 as […]
In round 5 of Abu Dhabi Masters, Jobava faced UAE’s number one player GM Salem. Both are tactical players and so we were not too surprised when the game turned into a very sharp game in the Slav Defense. Salem was pushing hard as white, perhaps with a slight advantage but Jobava played a brilliant […]
GM Jobava had a sky-rocketing start in the 26th Abu Dhabi Masters Chess tournament. After four rounds he is in the sole lead with 4 points out of 4! In round 3, he outplayed Chinese IM Xu Yi with the black pieces in the opening and in the last round (4) he beat Serbian GM […]
I the third round of Abu Dhabi Masters, Jobava won against Chinese IM Xu Yi with the black pieces. He has maximum points 3.0 out of 3 and in shared first place.
Playing with the white pieces, Jobava won comfortably against IM Zandos Agmanov from Kazakhstan after 32 moves.