Chess World Cup 2007
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The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2009
. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament
, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk
, Russia.
In an event attended by most leading players of the world, American Gata Kamsky
emerged as the winner. He was unbeaten in the tournament, going into tie-break only once and defeating Spaniard
Alexei Shirov
, 2½–1½, in the four-game final. Two 17-year-old players, Sergey Karjakin
and Magnus Carlsen
, reached the semifinals.
By winning, Kamsky qualified for the Challenger Match, the final stage in determining the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2010; his participation in that match allowed him direct entry into the Candidates Matches for the World Chess Championship 2012.
The final four also received direct entry into the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009, a qualifying stage for the World Chess Championship 2012.
. Gata Kamsky
, as the winner of this tournament, played an eight game match against Veselin Topalov
in 2008, for the right to be the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2010. Ultimately Topalov won the match and will face World Champion Viswanathan Anand
, who successfully defended his title against former champion Vladimir Kramnik
at the World Chess Championship 2008
.
and Veselin Topalov
were ineligible to participate, due to special privileges they already have in the 2008–2009 World Championship cycle.
All other leading players, including world champion Viswanathan Anand
, were eligible to participate. However Anand, who is already seeded into the 2008–2009 cycle, elected not to play.
Three other players who had recently competed in the World Chess Championship 2007
in Mexico - Péter Lékó
, Aleksandr Morozevich and Boris Gelfand
- elected not to play. Lékó and Morozevich refused to take part as a form of protest against the special privileges given for the inclusion of Kramnik and Topalov in the World Chess Championship Cycle.
The only other player from the Top 30 who did not participate was Judit Polgár
.
The individual Zones (for Zonals) are described in the FIDE handbook.
1 Izoria did not appear at the Cup due to visa problems. Gonzalez Zamora did not appear at the Cup due to illness.
The time control for regular games is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added after each move. Tie breaks consist of two rapid chess games (25 minutes each + 10 seconds per move); followed by two blitz games if required (5 minutes + 10 seconds per move); followed by a single Armageddon chess game if required (white has 6 minutes and must win, black has 5 minutes and only needs to draw).
The prize money ranged from US$6,000 for players eliminated in the first round to $80,000 for the losing finalist and $120,000 for the winner.
(19th seed), Konstantin Landa
(25) and Pendyala Harikrishna
(32).
(seeded 3), Loek van Wely
(24). Top 32 players eliminated in tie breaks were Rustam Kasimdzhanov
(22), Andrei Volokitin
(26) and Vadim Zvjaginsev
(30). This left 24 of the top 32 seeds in the final 32.
High seeds needing tie breaks to progress included Vassily Ivanchuk (1), Magnus Carlsen
(10), Ruslan Ponomariov
(14) and Wang Yue
(15).
(seeded 5), Michael Adams (7), Evgeny Alekseev (8), Magnus Carlsen
(10), Gata Kamsky
(11), Vladimir Akopian (12), Dmitry Jakovenko
(13), Ruslan Ponomariov
(14), Wang Yue
(15) and Ivan Cheparinov
(31). Cheparinov eliminated the number 2 seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
.
The other six matches were decided in the tie breaks. Winners were Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
(33) (eliminating top seed Vassily Ivanchuk), Krishnan Sasikiran
(35), Evgeny Bareev
(41), Levon Aronian
(4), Peter Svidler
(6), Sergey Karjakin
(17).
reports: Round five Game one;
Round five Game two;
Round five tie breaks;
Round six Game one.
Final, 13 December – 16 December
World Chess Championship 2009
The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess Champion. The match took place in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 24 to May 13, 2010, with a prize fund of million euros...
. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament
Single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...
, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate . The climate is extreme, with temperatures as low as -49 C° and as high as 34.5 C°. On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average tempurature of -1.1 C°...
, Russia.
In an event attended by most leading players of the world, American Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is also the current United States Chess Champion. As of September 2011, he is rated No. 1 in the United States and No...
emerged as the winner. He was unbeaten in the tournament, going into tie-break only once and defeating Spaniard
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
Alexei Shirov
Alexei Shirov
Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov is a Soviet-born Latvian chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998...
, 2½–1½, in the four-game final. Two 17-year-old players, Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for both the youngest International Master, eleven years and eleven months, and grandmaster in history, at the age of twelve years and seven months...
and Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
, reached the semifinals.
By winning, Kamsky qualified for the Challenger Match, the final stage in determining the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2010; his participation in that match allowed him direct entry into the Candidates Matches for the World Chess Championship 2012.
The final four also received direct entry into the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2009, a qualifying stage for the World Chess Championship 2012.
Background
The 2007 World Cup was part of the cycle for the World Chess Championship 2009World Chess Championship 2009
The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess Champion. The match took place in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 24 to May 13, 2010, with a prize fund of million euros...
. Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is also the current United States Chess Champion. As of September 2011, he is rated No. 1 in the United States and No...
, as the winner of this tournament, played an eight game match against Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov
Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....
in 2008, for the right to be the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2010. Ultimately Topalov won the match and will face World Champion Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand
V. Anand or Anand Viswanathan, usually referred as Viswanathan Anand, is an Indian chess Grandmaster, the current World Chess Champion, and currently second highest rated player in the world....
, who successfully defended his title against former champion Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...
at the World Chess Championship 2008
World Chess Championship 2008
The World Chess Championship 2008 was a best-of-twelve-games match between the World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik...
.
Prominent non-participants
Vladimir KramnikVladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...
and Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov
Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....
were ineligible to participate, due to special privileges they already have in the 2008–2009 World Championship cycle.
All other leading players, including world champion Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand
V. Anand or Anand Viswanathan, usually referred as Viswanathan Anand, is an Indian chess Grandmaster, the current World Chess Champion, and currently second highest rated player in the world....
, were eligible to participate. However Anand, who is already seeded into the 2008–2009 cycle, elected not to play.
Three other players who had recently competed in the World Chess Championship 2007
World Chess Championship 2007
The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from September 12, 2007 to September 30, 2007 to decide the world champion in the board game chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tournament....
in Mexico - Péter Lékó
Péter Lékó
On the way to winning the prestigious Corus chess tournament in 2005, Lékó defeated Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand with the black pieces. The moves were:...
, Aleksandr Morozevich and Boris Gelfand
Boris Gelfand
Boris Abramovich Gelfand is a Belarus-born Israeli chess Grandmaster. He won the 2011 Candidates Tournament and will challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2012.-Biography:...
- elected not to play. Lékó and Morozevich refused to take part as a form of protest against the special privileges given for the inclusion of Kramnik and Topalov in the World Chess Championship Cycle.
The only other player from the Top 30 who did not participate was Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person ever to do so at that time.Polgár was ranked No...
.
Qualification
The final list of 128 qualifiers for the World Cup was as follows:- Three of the eight participants of the World Chess Championship 2007World Chess Championship 2007The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from September 12, 2007 to September 30, 2007 to decide the world champion in the board game chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tournament....
(Levon AronianLevon AronianLevon Grigor Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion. On the September 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2807, making him number three in the world and Armenia's number one...
, Peter SvidlerPeter SvidlerPeter Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster.He is six-time Russian champion ....
, Alexander GrischukAlexander GrischukAlexander Igorevich Grischuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009.-Chess career:In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, Grischuk he made it to the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov....
). The other five qualifiers in this category were replaced by five players from the average rating list. - Women's World ChampionWomen's World Chess ChampionshipThe Women's World Chess Championship is played to determine the women's world champion in chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE....
2006 (Xu Yuhua). - Junior World ChampionWorld Junior Chess ChampionshipThe World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....
2006 (Zaven AndriasianZaven AndriasianZaven Andriasian is an Armenian Grandmaster of chess. He won the 2005 European Youth Chess Championship for under 16 and the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship...
). - Twenty-five players with the highest Elo rating (including five replacements). The average ratings from July 2006 and January 2007 were used.
- 89 players qualified from the continental and zonal championships:
- 45 players from Europe (16 from the 2006 European Individual Chess Championship and 29 from 2007)
- 19 players from the Americas (7 from the 4th American Continental ChampionshipPan American Chess ChampionshipThe first Pan-American Championship was held in Hollywood, 28 July - 12 August 1945. The line-up was as follows: 1. Samuel Reshevsky 10.5, 2. Reuben Fine 9, 3. Herman Pilnik 8.5, 4. Israel Horowitz 8, 5. Isaac Kashdan 7, 6. Hector Rossetto 6.5, 7-8. Weaver Adams , Herman Steiner 5.5, 9-10....
, 12 from the 2.1 through 2½ Zonals), - 19 players from Asia and Oceania (10 from the 6th Asian ChampionshipAsian Chess ChampionshipThe 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2009 World Chess Championship. Ten players were qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang , Wang Hao , Abhijit Kunte , Zhao Jun , Susanto Megaranto , Wen Yang , Darwin Laylo ,...
, 9 from the 3.1 through 3.6 Zonals), - 6 players from Africa (2007 African ChampionshipAfrican Chess ChampionshipThe first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title....
).
- 5 nominees of the FIDE President (Sergei RublevskySergei RublevskySergei Rublevsky is a Russian chess grandmaster . He won the prestigious Aeroflot Open in 2004, and became the 58th Russian chess champion after winning the Russian Superfinal in Moscow , one point clear from Dmitry Jakovenko and Alexander Morozevich.He finished in the top 10 in the 2005 FIDE...
, Evgeny BareevEvgeny BareevEvgeny Bareev is a Russian chess Grandmaster and chess coach. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739....
, Sergei Zhigalko, Ziaur RahmanZiaur Rahman (chess player)Ziaur Rahman is a chess player from Bangladesh and the second Grandmaster of the country after Niaz Morshed.He passed his SSC from Government Laboratory High School & gratuated from University of Dhaka....
, and Boris Savchenko). - 4 nominees of the local Organising Committee (Evgeny Alekseev, Nikolai Kabanov, Aleksei Pridorozhni, and Vladimir Genba).
The individual Zones (for Zonals) are described in the FIDE handbook.
Participants
All players are Grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.- , 2787
- , 2752
- , 2742
- , 2741
- , 2739
- , 2732
- , 2729
- , 2716
- , 2715
- , 2714
- , 2714
- , 2713
- , 2710
- , 2705
- , 2703
- , 2695
- , 2694
- , 2692
- , 2691
- , 2691
- , 2690
- , 2690
- , 2683
- , 2679
- , 2678
- , 2678
- , 2676
- , 2674
- , 2674
- , 2674
- , 2670
- , 2668
- , 2668
- , 2661
- , 2661
- , 2660
- , 2657
- , 2656
- , 2655
- , 2654
- , 2653
- , 2649
- , 2649
- , 2648
- , 2646
- , 2646
- , 2645
- , 2644
- , 2643
- , 2643
- , 2643
- , 2643
- , 2643
- , 2641
- , 2639
- , 2635
- , 2634
- , 2627
- , 2626
- , 2616
- , 2615
- , 2610
- , 2609
- , 2608
- , 2608
- , 2607
- , 2606
- , 2606
- , 2601
- , 2597
- , 2597
- , 2594
- , 2593
- , 2592
- , 2592
- , 2591
- , 2587
- , 2586
- , 2585
- , 2584
- , 2584
- , 2583
- , 2582
- , 2576
- , 2573
- , 2569
- , 2569
- , 2568
- , 2566, IM
- , 2565
- , 2565
- , 2565
- , 2563
- , 2562
- , 2561
- , 2561
- , 2552
- , 2552
- , 2547
- , 2546
- , 2546
- , 2544
- , 2534
- , 2531
- , 2530
- , 2528
- , 2520, IM
- , 2517
- , 2515, IM
- , 2514, IM
- , 2512, IM
- , 2511, IM
- , 2508, IM
- , 2506, IM
- , 2503, IM
- , 2497
- , 2496, IM
- , 2494
- , 2491, IM
- , 2484
- , 2480, IM
- , 2477, IM
- , 2435, IM
- , 2429, IM
- , 2427, IM
- , 2413, IM
- , 2389, FM
- , 2352, IM
1 Izoria did not appear at the Cup due to visa problems. Gonzalez Zamora did not appear at the Cup due to illness.
Playing conditions
The tournament is in the style of the FIDE World Chess Championships 1998–2004: each round consists of a two game match (except for the final round, which will be a four game match), followed by tie breaks at faster time controls if required.The time control for regular games is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added after each move. Tie breaks consist of two rapid chess games (25 minutes each + 10 seconds per move); followed by two blitz games if required (5 minutes + 10 seconds per move); followed by a single Armageddon chess game if required (white has 6 minutes and must win, black has 5 minutes and only needs to draw).
The prize money ranged from US$6,000 for players eliminated in the first round to $80,000 for the losing finalist and $120,000 for the winner.
Round 1
Most of the top seeds progressed. From the top 32, the only higher seeded players eliminated were Pavel EljanovPavel Eljanov
Pavel Eljanov is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.In 1999, he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine.Eljanov won the Corus B 2007 in Wijk aan Zee, Holland with a score of 9/13...
(19th seed), Konstantin Landa
Konstantin Landa
Konstantin Landa is a Russian chess Grandmaster.His best tournament results include: =1st with Zahar Efimenko at Fürth 2002, 1st at Trieste 2005, 1st at Reggio Emilia 2006, 1st at Vlissingen chess tournament 2011....
(25) and Pendyala Harikrishna
Pendyala Harikrishna
Pentala Harikrishna is a chess player from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India in 2001. He is No. 3 in India after Viswanathan Anand & Krishnan Sasikiran, No. 9 in Asia & ranked 71st in the world as per FIDE rating as on November 2011.In November...
(32).
Round 2
Players in the top 32 eliminated in regular games were Teimour RadjabovTeimour Radjabov
Radjabov's knight sacrifice, 21. ... Ngxe5, was praised by several strong players for its bravery, including English grandmaster Nigel Short. Said Short of the move, "Radjabov plays very imaginatively... he just won't give up, he is extremely tenacious and will always find a way to muddy the...
(seeded 3), Loek van Wely
Loek van Wely
Loek van Wely is a chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. He won the Dutch Chess Championship six times straight from 2000 through 2005. He was rated among the world's top ten in 2001. In 2002, in Maastricht, Netherlands, van Wely took on the computer program Rebel in a four-game match. The...
(24). Top 32 players eliminated in tie breaks were Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster, best known for winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004. He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic...
(22), Andrei Volokitin
Andrei Volokitin
Andriy Volokitin is a Ukrainian chess player and International Grandmaster of Chess.As a junior, he was twice a medallist at the World Youth Chess Championship, taking silver in 1998 at Oropesa del Mar at under-12 level, and bronze at the same venue a year later in the under-14 category...
(26) and Vadim Zvjaginsev
Vadim Zvjaginsev
Cifuentes-Parada-Zvjaginsev, Wijk aan Zee Open 1995 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 b6 7.Be2 Bb7 8.O-O Be7 9.Rd1 O-O 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Qc7 12.Nc3 c5 13.d5 exd5 14.cxd5 a6 15.Nh4 g6 16.Bh6 Rfe8 17.Qd2 Bd6 18.g3 b5 19.Bf3 b4 20.Ne2 Ne4 21.Qc2 Ndf6 22.Ng2 Qd7 23.Ne3 Rad8 24.Bg2? ...
(30). This left 24 of the top 32 seeds in the final 32.
High seeds needing tie breaks to progress included Vassily Ivanchuk (1), Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
(10), Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.-Early career:Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just...
(14) and Wang Yue
Wang Yue
Wang Yue is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. He is China's highest-ever rated player with a peak Elo rating of 2751. In 2004, he became China's 18th Grandmaster at the age of 17....
(15).
Round 3
After the two regular games, 10 of the 16 matches had decisive results. Players going through on the regular games are: Alexei ShirovAlexei Shirov
Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov is a Soviet-born Latvian chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998...
(seeded 5), Michael Adams (7), Evgeny Alekseev (8), Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked number one in the world on the official FIDE rating list...
(10), Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky
Gata Kamsky is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and the current World Rapid Chess Champion. He is also the current United States Chess Champion. As of September 2011, he is rated No. 1 in the United States and No...
(11), Vladimir Akopian (12), Dmitry Jakovenko
Dmitry Jakovenko
Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko is a Russian chess grandmaster. On the March 2010 FIDE Elo rating list, Jakovenko has a rating of 2725, making him the 20th highest ranked player in the world....
(13), Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Ponomariov
Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.-Early career:Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just...
(14), Wang Yue
Wang Yue
Wang Yue is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. He is China's highest-ever rated player with a peak Elo rating of 2751. In 2004, he became China's 18th Grandmaster at the age of 17....
(15) and Ivan Cheparinov
Ivan Cheparinov
Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...
(31). Cheparinov eliminated the number 2 seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov , also known for his Shah nickname, is a chess Grandmaster. On the September 2010 FIDE rating list he was ranked number nine in the world with an Elo rating of 2756....
.
The other six matches were decided in the tie breaks. Winners were Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu is a Romanian chess grandmaster. His peak FIDE rating was 2707 in October 2005, when he was ranked fifteenth in the world, and the highest ranked Romanian player ever...
(33) (eliminating top seed Vassily Ivanchuk), Krishnan Sasikiran
Krishnan Sasikiran
Krishnan Sasikiran is an Indian chess Grandmaster. Among Indians, he is second, after Viswanathan Anand, No. 6 in Asia & ranked 56th in the world in FIDE rating as on September 2011....
(35), Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Bareev is a Russian chess Grandmaster and chess coach. In October 2003, he was in fourth place in the world rankings, with an Elo rating of 2739....
(41), Levon Aronian
Levon Aronian
Levon Grigor Aronian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster and the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion. On the September 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2807, making him number three in the world and Armenia's number one...
(4), Peter Svidler
Peter Svidler
Peter Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster.He is six-time Russian champion ....
(6), Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Karjakin
Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for both the youngest International Master, eleven years and eleven months, and grandmaster in history, at the age of twelve years and seven months...
(17).
Round 4
In the regular time control games, Shirov, Ponomariov, Carlsen, Karjakin and Cheparinov won their respective matches against Akopian, Sasikiran, Adams, Nisipeanu and Wang Yue. The other three matches (Jakovenko-Aronian, Svidler-Kamsky and Bareev-Alekseev) proceed to tie breaks, with wins to Jakovenko, Kamsky and Alekseev.Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Results, rounds 5-7
ChessbaseChessBase
ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates a server for online chess. Set up in 1998, it maintains and sells massive databases, containing most historic games, that permit analysis that had not been possible prior to computing...
reports: Round five Game one;
Round five Game two;
Round five tie breaks;
Round six Game one.
Final, 13 December – 16 December
| Seed | Name | Rating | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2739 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1½ | |
| 11 | 2714 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 2½ |