Turkish GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus played a match with former World Champion Veselin Topalov in Monaco. The GMs played 6 games with Classical time control, and Erdogmus won with a score of 5-1.

Yagiz defeated Veselin 4 times and drew with him 2 times. Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus gained +22.4 points and became the youngest player to achieve a rating of 2700+ in history, at the age of 14 years and 10 months old, on April 16. He entered the Top-30 of the world live rating and is in 29th place.

The Topalov vs. Erdogmus: Clash of Generations III takes place from April 12 to April 17 in Monaco. The event features a 90+0 time control for the first 40 moves and 30+30 for the rest of the game.