On April 20th-30th, Shamkir will host a Chess Tournament as a memorial for Vugar Gashimov.
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In April 2014, Vugar Gashimov Memorial will be held in Shamkir- the eighth largest city of Azerbaijan. The tournament organized by Synergy Group OJSC as a memorial for Vugar Gashimov, who passed away recently will bring together the international Chess Community. Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov will play in the "A" Tournament.

After the sad passing of Azerbaijan's top grandmaster Vugar Gashimov on January 10th, 2014 several initiatives were taken in order to honor his memory. This time such a large organization dedicated to Vugar will attract attention of chess lovers in Shamkir region-located in the northern foothills of the Lesser Caucasus, on the coast of the Chagirchay River on Tbilisi-Yevlakh highway.

The tournament, which is sponsored by "Synergy Group"-one of the largest local investment companies, reportedly has a prize fund of €100,000.

There will be a second tournament alongside the main event. In this B tournament ten players will play; five from Azerbaijan (Eltaj Safarli, Nijat Abbasov, Gadir Huseynov, Rauf Mammadov,Vasif Durabeyli ), and five from abroad (Wang Hao, Eljanov Pavel, Bacrot Ettiene, Wojtaszek Radoslav, MotylevAlexander). The prize fund for this tournament will be €30,000.

Vugar Gashimov passed away on January 10th, 2014 in Heidelberg, Germany at the age of 27. The grandmaster from Baku had been ill for a long time and was under treatment for the last 1.5 years...

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