Peter Svidler FIDE World Cup 2011 Champion!

21 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Yesterday Peter Svidler of Russia drew his last fourth game against Grischuk in a Sicilian Opening allowing him to win the FIDE World Cup as the champion with a 2.5-1.5 score.

Chess.com reported that Peter Svidler drew the final game of his match with Alexander Grischuk to win the 2011 World Cup and pocket a cheque for 100,000 USD.

Svidler had an excellent tournament, beating Caruana, Kamsky, Polgar and Ponomariov on the way to the final, and winning many games with black pieces.

In the 3/4th place play-off match Vassily Ivanchuk held off Ruslan Ponomariov to earn the final place in the 2012 Candidates Tournament.

Peter Svidler’s fourth game of the Final, World Cup 2011.

Ivanchuk Vassily’s fourth game for the third position, World Cup 2011.

 

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Photos from the official website.

Svidler Draws Closer To Being Champion, World Cup

Pix 1. Svidler and Grischuk after the third round, FIDE World Cup 2011, Khanty Mansiysk, RUS. (picture courtesy of chess.ugrasport.com)

19 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Svidler drew his third game and drew closer to securing the FIDE World Cup 2011 in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.

Chess.com reported that Peter Svidler had no trouble holding Alexander Grischuk to a draw in the third game of their World Cup final match.

In fact, it was Svidler who had the better position with the black pieces, and Grischuk was replying on the 30 second time increment yet again to survive.  This time he managed to navigate to safe waters and salvage a draw.

Tomorrow Grischuk needs to conjure up a win with the black pieces to take the match to tie-breaks.

Vassily Ivanchuk drew a long and tiring game with Ruslan Ponomariov to leave himself needing just half a point with black in the final game tomorrow to reach the Candidates Tournament.

Results:

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Latest news from chessvibes.com : (MORE LATER) Peter Svidler won the FIDE World Cup 2011 after drawing the 4th game of the final against Alexander Grischuk today. The grandmaster from St. Petersburg set the final score at 2.5-1.5 and clinched the title and US $120,000 first prize. At the moment of writing Ruslan Ponomariov and Vassily Ivanchuk are still playing.

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Svidler Leads World Cup 2011

 

 17 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – In Khanty Mansiysk, the finals between Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk stands at 1.5 – 0.5 with Svidler leading. Svidler drew his second game with Grischuk in 16 moves in a Sicilian Opening. Svidler and Grischuk will decide the winner of the FIDE World Cup 2011 after four games.

Meanwhile to determine the third placing, Ivanchuk wins the second game against Ruslan Ponomariov. Ivanchuk leads with 1.5-0.5 after two games.

[Event "World Chess Cup 2011"]
[Site "1:01.28-0:49.17"]
[Date "2011.09.14"]
[Round "72"]
[White "Svidler, Peter"]
[Black "Grischuk, Alexander"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2739"]
[WhiteCountry "RUS"]
[BlackElo "2746"]
[BlackCountry "RUS"]
[Remark "Match for the 1st place"]
[PresId "1000720001"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. a4 e5 7. Nf3 Be7 8. Bg5 Be6 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10. Nd5 Nd7 11. Bc4 Rc8 12. Qe2 Nb6 13.Nxf6+ Qxf6 14. Bxe6 Qxe6 15. b3 O-O 16. Rd1 Rc6 

1/2-1/2

Figure 1. Black played 16…Rc6, game drawn.

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[Event "World Chess Cup 2011"]
[Site "0:32.22-0:33.25"]
[Date "2011.09.14"]
[Round "72"]
[White "Ponomariov, Ruslan"]
[Black "Ivanchuk, Vassily"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2764"]
[WhiteCountry "UKR"]
[BlackElo "2768"]
[BlackCountry "UKR"]
[Remark "Match for the 3rd place"]
[PresId "1000720002"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e4 Bb4 6. Bg5 c5 7. Bxc4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Qa5 10. Bb5+ Nbd7 11. Bxf6 Qxc3+ 12. Kf1 gxf6 13. Nxe6 Qe5 14. Nd4 O-O 15. Qd3 Nc5 16. Qg3+ Kh8 17. Qxe5 fxe5 18. Nf3 a6 19. Bc4 Nxe4 20. Nxe5 f6 21. Nf3 Bf5 22. h3 b5 23. Bb3 Nc3 24. Nd4 Bd3+ 25. Kg1 a5 26. Kh2 a4 27. Bd1 Bc4 28. a3 Rad8 29. Nc6 Rd2 30. Bf3 Rxf2 31. Rhc1 Na2 32. Re1 Rc8 33. Re7 Nc3 34. Nb4 f5 35. Rae1 Rg8 36. R7e5 Be2 37. Rxf5 Bxf3 38. Rxf3 Rgxg2+ 39. Kh1 Rh2+ 40. Kg1 Ne2+ 

0-1

Figure 2. Black played 40…Ne2+, white resigned.

 

Pictures from chess.ugrasport.com, the official website.

Svidler meets Grischuk In World Cup Final!

14 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Both Russian semi-finalists in the World Cup triumphed in their semi-final rounds by overcoming their Ukrainian opponents. Grischuk won 3.5 - 2.5, while Svidler won 1.5 – 0.5.

Semifinal results:-
 

Chess.com website reported that Peter Svidler qualified for the 2011 World Cup final by beating Ruslan Ponomariov with the black pieces in the second game of their semi-final match.

Svidler played his beloved Grünfeld Defence and it served him well. He sacrificed the exchange for excellent compensation, his beautiful pair of bishops dominating the game and shepherding his passed pawns home.

Here is the winning game from Peter Svidler of Russia.

 

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Polgar crashes out in Q- Finals

Zhao, Yifan Leaders In Shenzhen

10 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur - In Shenzen FIDE Women Grand Prix, Zhao Xue and Hou Yifan jointly leads with 2.5 points after third round of play. The official website of the tournament reported that during the third round playing White World Champion Hou Yifan gave first half a point to Turkish player Betul Yildiz. Her compatriot Zhao Xue also made a draw against Zhu Chen. Viktorija Cmilyte and Tan Zongyi managed to win their games against Elina Danielian and Ekaterina Kovalevskaya accordingly. Munguntuul B took her first half a point in the game against Anna Muzychuk. Ruan Lufei made the third draw in a raw against Ju Wenjun. As a result the situation with leaders didn`t change – both Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue have 2.5 points after 3 games and share first place. Viktorija Cmilyte, Anna Muzychuk and Tan Zhongy share the third place with 2 points.

Table 1. Standings After Round 3, FIDE WOMEN GRAND PRIX SHENZHEN 2011



Table 2. Results for rounds 1-3, FIDE WOMEN GRAND PRIX SHENZHEN 2011

Polgar, 7 Others Qualify Q-Finals

9 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur - The Week In Chess reported that the favourites made it through to the quarter finals of the World Cup but there were obviously some tired bodies out there in a round with more than its fair share of errors. Judit Polgar against Leinier Dominguez featured the closest matched players and they mixed the good with the bad before Polgar won a final blitz game in the Sicilian. Ruslan Ponomariov lost two games in a row against Lazaro Bruzon playing badly but pulled himself together in time to go through. Both Cubans could easily have gone through in the longest and most dramatic matches. Ivanchuk, Gashimov and Grischuk had less trouble. The quarter finals are: Polgar-Svidler, Ponomariov-Gashimov, Ivanchuk-Radjabov and Navara-Grischuk. Heavyweight struggles all.




Judit Polgar was pretty relieved to get through against Dominguez. Photo © | http://chess.ugrasport.com

All the scores given below are from today's playoffs.

Polgar Bounces Back!

8 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Polgar bounces back in game 2 of round 4 by winning with the black pieces!

SusanPolgar blogspot reported that the return games of the Round 4 of the World Cup were played on September 7 in Khanty-Mansiysk.

The magnificent Judit Polgar managed to win on demand, playing Black against Lenier Dominguez. The Cuban grandmaster needed to make a draw in order to advance to the Quarter-finals, but instead of playing it safe he went for a very sharp and principled line of the Sicilian. White sacrificed a piece, but failed to create a winning attack, and had to fight for a draw in the endgame. Black had two bishops against a rook and two pawns, but with limited material White had decent drawing chances. The nervous tension was extremely high. White made a couple of inaccuracies, and his situation became critical. However, Polgar missed a clear-cut win, and a well-known theoretical ending with rook + bishop vs. rook arose. White's position was theoretically lost, and Black, despite practical difficulties, slowly found the right sequence.

(picture courtesy of SusanPolgar.blogspot.com and chess.ugrasport.com)

Polgar, Navara Through To Last 16

6 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur - Here is Chess.Com round up of round three of the FIDE World Cup 2011.

"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."

Pix 1. David Navara (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.

To read more, please visit this link here.


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Photos from the official website.

Judit Polgar Pulls Through

5 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – Judit Polgar manages a draw against top seed Sergey Karjakin in the second game of the third round FIDE World Cup 2011. With this draw, Judit Polgar pulls through to the next round and Sergey Karjakin eliminated. Others that got through included Vugar Gashimov, Alexander Grischuk, Teimour Radjabov, Dmitry Jakovenko and Bu Xiangzhi.

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(picture courtesy of The Week In Chess by Mark Crowther)

Judit Polgar's Video Conference After 3rd Round Win!

4 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur - Here is Judit Polgar's video conference after her third round win over Sergey Karjakin 1st game during the FIDE World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk.

World Chess Cup 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk

( source: chess.ugrasport.com )

Polgar Creates Upset In 3rd Round World Cup

Pix 1. Karjakin lost to Polgar in 3rd Round, 1st game, World Cup 2011. (picture courtesy of chess.ugrasport.com)

4 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur - Judit Polgar won her third round game against top seed Sergey Karjakin in a Berlin game of the Ruy Lopez opening. Here is the winning game for Polgar.

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2011"]
[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"]
[Date "2011.09.03"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Polgar, Judit"]
[Black "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2699"]
[BlackElo "2788"]
[ECO "C67"]

1. e2-e4 e7-e5 2. Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 3. Bf1-b5 Ng8-f6 4. O-O Nf6xe4 5. d2-d4 Ne4-d6
6. Bb5xc6 d7xc6 7. d4xe5 Nd6-f5 8. Qd1xd8 Ke8xd8 9. Nb1-c3 Kd8-e8 10. h2-h3
h7-h5 11. Rf1-d1 Bf8-e7 12. Nc3-e4 Bc8-d7 13. b2-b3 h5-h4 14. Bc1-g5 Ra8-d8
15. c2-c4 b7-b6 16. Rd1-d2 Bd7-c8 17. Rd2xd8 Ke8xd8 18. Ra1-d1 Kd8-e8 19.
Bg5-f4 c6-c5 20. e5-e6 Bc8xe6 21. Bf4xc7 f7-f6 22. Bc7-b8 a7-a6 23. Bb8-a7
Be7-d8 24. Ne4-c3 Ke8-f7 25. Nc3-a4 b6-b5 26. Na4xc5 Be6-c8 27. c4xb5 a6xb5
28. a2-a4 b5xa4 29. b3xa4 Rh8-e8 30. Rd1-b1 g7-g5 31. Ba7-b6 Bd8-e7 32. a4-a5
Be7xc5 33. Bb6xc5 Re8-e6 34. Rb1-b6 Nf5-g7 35. Bc5-e3 Ng7-f5 36. Rb6-b8 Re6-e8
37. Rb8-a8 Bc8-b7 38. Ra8-a7 Re8-e7 39. Be3-c5 Re7-d7 40. a5-a6 Bb7-c6 41.
Ra7xd7 Bc6xd7 42. Nf3-d2 Kf7-e6 43. Nd2-c4 Bd7-c6 44. Nc4-b6 Nf5-d6 45. Bc5xd6
Ke6xd6 46. a6-a7 Kd6-c7 47. a7-a8=Q Bc6xa8 48. Nb6xa8 Kc7-b7 49. f2-f4 1-0

Wesley So Knocked Out!

4 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – At the FIDE World Cup, GM Wesley So of the Philippines went down to GM Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine. Chess.com reported that the second round of the 2011 Chess World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia has been completed following the tie-break games played today.

The biggest casualties were #13 seed Francisco Vallejo Pons, #15 seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and #21 seed Michael Adams.

Unlike the first round, none of the tie-breaks went to blitz games this time.  In fact, only 2 matches went beyond the first pair of rapid games.  Those matches saw #4 seed Ruslan Ponomariov and #9 seed Peter Svidler safely through.

Top seed Sergey Karjakin put an end to Wesley So's competition, and set up a fascinating clash with Judit Polgar in round three.

Pix 1. Wesley So played against Sergey Karjakin in Round 2, FIDE World Cup 2011. (Picture courtesy of Chess.com)

 

The full tie-break match results:

Name	G1	G2	R1	R2	r3	r4	B1	B2	SD	Tot
Round 2 Match 01
Karjakin, Sergey (RUS)	½	½	½	1						2.5
So, Wesley (PHI)	½	½	½	0						1.5
Round 2 Match 03
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE)	½	½	1	½						2.5
Fridman, Daniel (GER)	½	½	0	½						1.5
Round 2 Match 04
Ni, Hua (CHN)	½	½	½	½	0	½				2.5
Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR)	½	½	½	½	1	½				3.5
Round 2 Match 06
Feller, Sebastien (FRA)	½	½	0	0						1
Grischuk, Alexander (RUS)	½	½	1	1						3
Round 2 Match 09
Svidler, Peter (RUS)	½	½	½	½	1	1				4
Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son (VIE)	½	½	½	½	0	0				2
Round 2 Match 13
Vallejo Pons, Francisco (ESP)	0	1	½	0						1.5
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB)	1	0	½	1						2.5
Round 2 Match 15
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA)	½	½	½	0						1.5
Bu, Xiangzhi (CHN)	½	½	½	1						2.5
Round 2 Match 17
Ivanov, Alexander (USA)	½	½	½	0						1.5
Lysyj, Igor (RUS)	½	½	½	1						2.5
Round 2 Match 19
Moiseenko, Alexander (UKR)	½	½	1	1						3
Inarkiev, Ernesto (RUS)	½	½	0	0						1
Round 2 Match 21
Adams, Michael (ENG)	½	½	½	0						1.5
Nielsen, Peter Heine (DEN)	½	½	½	1						2.5
Round 2 Match 25
Nepomniachtchi, Ian (RUS)	½	½	1	½						2.5
Riazantsev, Alexander (RUS)	½	½	0	½						1.5
Round 2 Match 26
Filippov, Anton (UZB)	1	0	0	0						1
Bacrot, Etienne (FRA)	0	1	1	1						3
Round 2 Match 30
Zherebukh, Yaroslav (UKR)	1	0	1	1						3
Felgaer, Ruben (ARG)	0	1	0	0						1

 

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 schedule:

Round	Regular games	Tiebreaks	Players
1	28–29 Aug	30-Aug	128
2	31 Aug–1 Sept	02-Sep	64
3	3–4 Sept	05-Sep	32
4	6-7 Sept	08-Sep	16
Q-Final	9–10 Sept	11-Sep	8
Semi-Final	12–13 Sept	14-Sep	4
Final	16–19 Sept	20-Sep	2

 

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 is here.

To read more, please visit this link here.