World Cup R5: Gelfand in the fiinal
Дек 8, 2009 by
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The FIDE World Chess Cup is taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk from November 20th to December 15th 2009. It is a seven-round knockout event with six rounds of matches comprising two games per round, with the winners progressing to the next round. The final seventh round consists of four games. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move from move one. Games start at 15:00h local time, which is GMT +5 hours = 11:00 a.m. European time = 5 a.m. New York. The World Chess Cup is an integral part of the World Championship Cycle 2009-2011.
Semifinals: game two
Boris Gelfand arrives with The Legendary Hat
Group photo – without Karjakin...
... who strikes an elegant pose on the side
Not bad, but learn from Sergey – Vladimir Malakhov
Third place goes to chief arbiter Ashot Vardapetian
Deadly dangerous when he is in this form: Boris Gelfand of Israel
Ruslan Ponomariov, draw against Vladimir Malakhov,
A reminder: all photos from Khanty-Mansiysk are by Galina Popova for FIDE
Results of round six
| Players | G1 | G2 | Tot |
| Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) | 0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Gelfand, Boris (ISR) | 1 |
1 |
2.0 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) | ½ |
½ |
1.0 |
| Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) | ½ |
½ |
1.0 |
Schedule of the World Cup 2009
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Links
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