After 3 playoff rapid games, 6 players move on to round 4. Others will head to the 4th and final rapid games.
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Round 3. Rapid 3. |
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| match | match score |
White | Result | Black | Games |
| 1 | 1.5-3.5 | Polgar, Judit (HUN) | 0-1 | Gelfand, Boris (ISR) | View |
| 2 | 3.5-1.5 | Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) | 1-0 | Li, Chao b (CHN) | View |
| 3 | 2-3 | Svidler, Peter (RUS) | 0-1 | Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER) | View |
| 4 | 3.5-1.5 | Laznicka, Viktor (CZE) | 1-0 | Bologan, Viktor (MDA) | View |
| 8 | 2.5-2.5 | Jobava, Baadur (GEO) | 1-0 |
Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) | View |
| 9 | 3-2 | Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) | ½-½ | Areshchenko, Alexander (UKR) | View |
| 10 | 3.5-1.5 | Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) | 1-0 | Wang, Yue (CHN) | View |
| 11 | 1-4 | Eljanov, Pavel (UKR) | 0-1 | Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) | View |
| 12 | 1-4 | Navara, David (CZE) | 0-1 | Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) | View |
| 15 | 3-2 | Caruana, Fabiano (ITA) | 1-0 | Alekseev, Evgeny (RUS) | View |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Jobava-Grischuk
At move 42 is a nice winning combination for Grischuk.
Only two of the last 16 are non-Europeans – Gelfand (Israel, but originally from Belarus) and Wesley So (Philippines).
Why did Judit have to play a 3rd rapid game when she lost on the first 2 rapid games?
They play 4 rapid, and if the complete result is draw, they continue the battle with the blitz. They dont play only 2 rapid. (And of course they play 4 blitz before the continuation)