Though he beat Russian player Dmitri Bocharov in the final, he was ranked the third according to the points, APA-Sport reports quoting official website of the competition.

Other two Azeri players didn't earn medals in the tournament. Nijat Mammedov took 93th place with 5.5 points after 9 games. Serkhan Guliyev is 128th among 606 participants. Heshimov had won gold medal in the same tournament last year.