Round 3 Game 2 Tiebreaks at World Cup 2009

Tiebreak game 2 of Round 3 starts with controversy as both Chinese players, Wang, Yue and Li, Chao b were both forfeited for that game, evidently for not getting to the table on time.  All players in the games involved appeared upset, no one likes to win on a forfeit, Wang Yue had won his first game as well.  Li Chao b goes down 0.5-1.5 after the forfeited game, he will have to win in Game 3 of the tiebreaks to hold on to a chance for Round 4.  Other results are starting to come in as well.

 Round 3 Game 2 Tiebreaks, Match Score at front, game result in middle,

• 2.5-1.5 Gelfand, Boris (ISR) ½-½ Polgar, Judit (HUN)
• 1.5-2.5 Li, Chao b (CHN) 0-1 Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) *
• 2.0-2.0 Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER) ½-½ Svidler, Peter (RUS)
• 1.5-2.5 Bologan, Viktor (MDA) 0-1 Laznicka, Viktor (CZE) 
• 2.5-1.5 Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) 1-0 Jobava, Baadur (GEO) 
• 1.5-2.5 Areshchenko, Alexander (UKR) ½-½ Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS
• 1.5-2.5 Wang, Yue (CHN) 0-1 Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) *
• 3-1 Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) 1-0 Eljanov, Pavel (UKR)
• 3-1 Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) 1-0 Navara, David (CZE)
• 2-2 Alekseev, Evgeny (RUS) ½-½ Caruana, Fabiano (ITA)

 * Forfeited this game due to arriving after the games had started.

Those already in Round 4 are:

So Wesley (PHI)

Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS)
Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR)
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE)
Shirov, Alexei (ESP)
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA