Havana, August 13 (PL) --The World Chess Cup in the men's sector has only one tenant left for the quarterfinals, an instance to which the favorites qualified today.

The American nationalized Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana and Leinier Domínguez left their respective rivals in the way and will face each other in the next stage.

Also, this Sunday, the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, after defeating the Ukrainian veteran Vasily Ivanchuk for the second consecutive day, and the Indian Arjun Erigaisi, who only needed a draw to eliminate the Swedish Nils Grandelius, managed to get into the top eight.

India has been the great protagonist of the event, as it has also secured in this round Dommaraju Gukesh, who will be Carlsen's opponent, and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, who will play against Erigaisi.

Only the match between the Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi and the Indian Santosh Vidit, which will be tomorrow in the rapid games, remains to be defined, to find out the opponent of the Azeri Nijat Abasov.

Among the women there is already a semifinalist, the Chinese Zhongyi Tan, who will compete against the winner in tiebreaks between the Russian Aleksandra Goryachkina and the Indian Harika Dronavalli.

Tomorrow the other two semifinalists will also be known, since today the Russian Polina Shuvalova and the Bulgarian Nurgyul Salimova, and the Ukrainian Anna Muzychuk and the German Elisabeth Paehtz finished equal.