Tuesday, December 1, 2009

World Cup R4: Svidler, Mamedyarov and Karjakin through



01.12.2009 – Peter Svidler and Shak Mamedyarov drew their games and went through against Alexei Shirov and Viktor Laznicka after yesterday's victories. Sergey Karjakin, who (would you believe it?) at 19 has been a grandmaster for seven years, defeated Nikita Vitiugov with black to join the two in round five. The other boards finished without decisions, today will see five tiebreak pairings.

Round 4. Game 2.

match match
score
White Result Black
1 1-1 Gelfand, Boris (ISR) ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA) View
2 1-1 Caruana, Fabiano (ITA) ½-½ Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) View
3 1.5-0.5 Svidler, Peter (RUS) ½-½ Shirov, Alexei (ESP) View
4 1.5-0.5 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) ½-½ Laznicka, Viktor (CZE) View
5 0.5-1.5 Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) 0-1 Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) View
6 1-1 Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) ½-½ So, Wesley (PHI) View
7 1-1 Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½-½ Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) View
8 1-1 Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) ½-½ Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) Vie

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