Leinier vs Bruzón, head to head and in another scenario – SwingCompleto

By Jose Alejandro Rodriguez Zas

Five years after the last confrontation in the official tournament of the classic games, the Cuban Grand Masters Linear Dominguez (2760 ELO points) and Lazaro Prozon He (2645) fell to the tables after 27 moves from the Italian Apertura, in the third round of the United States National Chess Championship, the country in which the two parties are currently competing, after emigrating from Cuba.

Bruzón of Las Tunas, in white cutting power, had a certain advantage in the middle of the game, having “El Ídolo de Güines” sacrificed a knight in exchange for some pawns in the 14th move, but several plays later, Liner followed an interesting sequence of well-studied combos by him to provoke the repetition of movements, allowing chess players to shake hands with others in peace.

All Cuban chess fans will remember, yes or yes, those exciting matches for the Cuban title, which both won, in highly competitive matches from start to finish. Or also in 2016, when they both played Capablanca In Memoriam and settled their confrontations with two draws, until Liner decided not to play any more in the local tournaments to protect his ELO, which is much higher than the rest of the island tournaments. chess players.

What happened next, everyone knows: both decided to leave Cuba in search of a better future in the sport of chess and in their personal lives. So, since 2016, five years ago, they have not seen each other face to face, board after board in an official tournament, the best chess players that Cuba has offered in recent decades, although they coincided in other virtual events developed and some other fast-paced games.

as chessgame.comLiner and Prozon played 35 official matches with each other, with each team having three victories and 29 draws. Since 2007, when Linear won the match In the 24 sets of Spanish Apertura, all clashes between the two were tied, 17 in a row, including today’s result

Back in the US Championships, both Leiner and Prozon reached 1.5 points after playing three games, a number that is more valuable to a man than Las Tunas, who has not faced a tournament of this magnitude for a long time, with its elite chess players. In addition to the match schedule against Liner, Prozon did the same against Fabiano Caruana (2800), second in the FIFA world rankings and Samuel Shankland (2714).