Matches that will head into rapid playoffs tomorrow: Galkin, Alexander (RUS) 2608 – Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) 2787Carlsen, Magnus (NOR) 2714 – Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER) 2639Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) 2705 – Wang, Hao (CHN) 2643Tiviakov, Sergei (NED) 2643 – Wang, Yue...
World Cup round 2 results and games
1 1-1 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) ½-½ Galkin, Alexander (RUS) View / Alt2 0,5-1,5 Kozul, Zdenko (CRO) ½-½ Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) View / Alt3 0-2 Radjabov, Teimour (AZE) 0-1 Macieja, Bartlomiej (POL) View / Alt4 0,5-1,5 Gustafsson, Jan (GER) ½-½...
Radjabov eliminated by Macieja 2-0
GM Radjabov (2742) – GM Macieja (2606) [E10]28.11.2007Game 2 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Nc3 0–0 6.Bg2 dxc4 7.0–0 Nbd7 8.Qa4 a5 9.a3 Nb6 10.Qc2 Be7 11.e4 Bd7 12.Be3 h6 13.Ne5 Qe8 14.f4 Ba4 15.Qe2 Bb3...
Painful game for Shulman
This is the position after 26.Rd1?? which made a bad position hopeless. All Black had to do was to play 26…Nd4+ and the game is basically over. Unfortunately, Shulman played 26…e2??, followed by 28…Qh3+??, which gave the game to...
Kamsky, Onischuk advance to 3rd round
GM Kamsky (2714) – GM Avrukh (2641) [A46]28.11.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 b5 4.c4 Bb7 5.a4 bxc4 6.Nc3 d6 7.e4 Ba6 8.e5 dxe5 9.Nxe5 g6 10.Bxc4 Bxc4 11.Nxc4 Bg7 12.0–0 0–0 13.Bf4 Na6 14.Qf3 Nb4 15.Rad1 Nc2 16.Be5...
Ivanchuk, Carlsen extended to playoff tomorrow
Final position GM Ivanchuk (2787) – GM Galkin (2608) [C42]28.11.2007 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0–0 Be7 8.c4 Nb4 9.cxd5 Nxd3 10.Qxd3 Qxd5 11.Re1 Bf5 12.Ne5 0–0–0 13.Qf3 g6 14.g4 Bh4 15.Nc3...
Ponomariov 0-1 Wang
[White “Ponomariov, Ruslan”][Black “Wang, Hao”][Result “0-1”][WhiteElo “2705”][WhiteCountry “UKR”][BlackElo “2643”][BlackCountry “CHN”] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 a6 5. a4 e6 6. Bg5 a5 7. e3 Na6 8.Bd3 Nb4 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Be7...
World Cup Round 2 Highlights
The biggest upsets of the day are: – Macieja (2606) defeated Radjabov (2742)– Wang (2643) defeated Ponomariov (2705) – Galkin (2608) held Ivanchuk (2787) to a draw– Shulman (2616) held Shirov (2739) to a draw– M. Gurevich (2627) held...
WC – Shulman 1/2 Shirov
Final position GM Shulman (2616) – GM Shirov (2739) [D85]27.11.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Nf3 c5 8.Rb1 0–0 9.Be2 cxd4 10.cxd4 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qxa2 12.0–0 Bg4 13.Bg5 h6 14.Be3 Nc6 15.d5...
WC – Onischuk 1-0 Nikolic
Position after 24.Bb6 GM Onischuk (2674) – GM Nikolic (2657) [D20]27.11.2007 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 e5 4.Bxc4 exd4 5.exd4 Nf6 6.Nf3 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 0–0 8.0–0 Nc6 9.h3 h6 10.Re1 Na5 11.Bd3 Be6 12.Bf4 Nd5 13.Bd2 Nc6 14.a3 Be7...