Judit Polgar in third round of World Chess Cup
STAFF WRITER 9:52 HRS IST
From Our Chess CorrespondentKhanty Mansiysk (Russia) Nov 27 (PTI) World’s highest rated women player ever, Judit Polgar of Hungary made it to the third round of the World Chess cup at the expense of GrandLiviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania in the second set of tiebreak games of the second round here.
The championship that started with 128 players is now down to last 32 and many higher seeds have already been exited by lesser known rivals.
There were seven Indians in the fray to start with and four were ousted in the first round itself. The remaining three ? Krishnan Sasikiran, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda went down in the normal games of the second round by an identical 0-2 margin against Etienne Bacrot of France, Wang Hao of China and Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia respectively.
Source: http://www.ptinews.com
Judit vs Gelfand next.
Take Anand out of the equation & Indian Chess becomes truly mediocre. Other Asian countries China,Vietnam & Phillipines are poised to excel.Gelfand will prove too much for Judith in the classical format.However Judith has the edge in the Rapids.