"After three completed rounds at the 2011 World Cup the 128 starters have been necessarily whittled down to just 16 players, and the action is set to become even more intense.
The third round tie-breaks were mostly finished in just 2 rapid games, but one match went all the way to a sudden-death decider.
Vassily Ivanchuk won both his rapid games against Emil Sutovsky to secure his fourth round berth. The same manner of victory was achieved by Gata Kamsky, Peter Svidler and Peter Heine Nielsen. Svidler's victory was at the expense of 19 year-old Fabiano Caruana.
However, the #3 seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov was eliminated after losing his first rapid game and failing to recover in the second. A brilliant victory for 18 year-old Yaroslav Zherebukh of Ukraine!
Ruslan Ponomariov and Vladimir Potkin are through to the next round, but Le Quang Liem was beaten by Lazaro Bruzon of Cuba.
Another Cuban, Leinier Dominguez, also booked his place in the next round, but only by winning the final sudden-death game!
However, the story of the third round was David Navara's delayed victory over Alexander Moiseenko. In the last regular game of their match yesterday Navara offered a draw in a winning position, apparently to display good sportsmanship due to an earlier incident in the game."
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Pix 1. David Navarra (picture courtesy of Chess.com and official website chess.ugrasport.com)
The full tie-break match results:
Name G1 G2 R1 R2 r3 r4 B1 B2 SD Tot
Round 3 Match 02
Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) 0 1 1 1 3
Sutovsky, Emil (ISR) 1 0 0 0 1
Round 3 Match 03
Zherebukh, Yaroslav (UKR) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5
Round 3 Match 04
Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5
Efimenko, Zahar (UKR) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5
Round 3 Match 08
Kamsky, Gata (USA) 1 0 1 1 3
Nepomniachtchi, Ian (RUS) 0 1 0 0 1
Round 3 Match 09
Caruana, Fabiano (ITA) ½ ½ 0 0 1
Svidler, Peter (RUS) ½ ½ 1 1 3
Round 3 Match 11
Potkin, Vladimir (RUS) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5
Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5
Round 3 Match 12
Parligras, Mircea-Emilian (ROU) ½ ½ 0 0 1
Nielsen, Peter Heine (DEN) ½ ½ 1 1 3
Round 3 Match 13
Le, Quang Liem (VIE) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5
Round 3 Match 14
Navara, David (CZE) ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 4
Moiseenko, Alexander (UKR) ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 2
Round 3 Match 16
Dominguez Perez, Leinier (CUB) 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 5
Lysyj, Igor (RUS) 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 4
So the final 16 draw looks like this:
Judit Polgar (33) v Leinier Perez Dominguez (16)
Gata Kamsky (8) v Peter Svidler (9)
Ruslan Ponomariov (4) v Lazaro Bruzon (52)
Vugar Gashimov (5) v Peter Heine Nielsen (44)
Vassily Ivanchuk (2) v Bu Xiangzhi (50)
Teimour Radjabov (7) v Dmitry Jakovenko (10)
Yaroslav Zherebukh (94) v David Navara (14)
Alexander Grischuk (6) v Vladimir Potkin (43)
The winner, runner-up and third placed player in the World Cup will qualify for the Candidates tournament to determine a challenger for the winner of the Anand v Gelfand world championship match next year.
Each round starts at 15:00 local time (09:00 UTC). The time control for the regular games is 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 second increment from the start. Rapid games are at 25 minutes plus 10 second increment, and if scores are still level then 10 minutes plus 10 second increment, 5 minutes plus 3 second increment, and finally sudden-death 5 min v 4 min with a 3 second increment after move 60.
The official website with live coverage and commentary in Russian and English :- http://chess.ugrasport.com
Photos from the official website.
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