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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov played his next matches at the Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot tournament in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
The Azerbaijani grandmaster faced Russian player Ian Nepomniachtchi on November 12. Both games, in which the players took turns with the white and black pieces, ended in draws.
Under the tournament rules, a win is worth three points and a draw one. Mamedyarov added two points to his tally during the day and moved to fourth place in Group C with five points.
Ian Nepomniachtchi leads the group with six points. Hayk Martirosyan, also on six points, is second, while Anish Giri is third with five. Magnus Carlsen is fifth with four points, and Abhimanyu Mishra is sixth with three.
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On November 11, Mamedyarov won one of his two games against Hayk Martirosyan and lost the other.
