Overview
- On Saturday in Doha, Faustino Oro beat Daniyal Sapenov and Evgeniy Najer and drew with Vincent Keymer and Haik Martirosyan to go unbeaten across four rounds.
- Oro has 5 points from 9 games with a performance near 2643 and sits 79th after facing multiple top‑20 opponents earlier in the event.
- Vladislav Artemiev and Hans Niemann lead the open rapid on 7.5 points, with Magnus Carlsen, Alexey Sarana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Yagiz Erdogmus half a point back.
- In the women’s event, Candela Francisco recovered to 4.5/8 and around 57th place after three straight wins on Saturday, following an opening‑day victory over Eline Roebers.
- The World Rapid is being held at Qatar University (13 open rounds; 11 women’s) with €350,000 and €155,000 prize pools respectively, and the Blitz championship runs Dec. 29–30.