Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

He's more or less paid off now, right? I mean, once, once your prospects crest 2,700, you can't necessarily expect more from them.

I mean, I do love that, that he and Mamedyarov are saying like, "Well, the goal is to, is to get to 2,900." [laughs] That would be fine by me.

But I think with the current rating deflation, I mean, that would s- it, it would still be a lot to expect anyone over 2,700 to keep going up.

So.

now he has of course i mean uh i don't know how much this can be attributed to that work yeah but it will be hard to tell because these things are never like one-to-one matching stuff so But I will say his play has become much more positional recently.

So and yeah, this is probably first of all, due to the work he has done with first with Romanov, then with his other coaches like Mamedyarov, for example, now he's working with him.

And also, of course, with experience, this also comes, because positional play is mainly experience.

So, yes, no one knows at first where to put the pieces, or how to play the position, but with time it comes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.

10, nine seconds.

Fabiano Caruana.

It's fine.

Yeah, we are professionals.

On the other game, we had Karjakin and Mamedyarov.

This is Mamedyarov's third time, and Karjakin was the challenger in 2016.