World Cup Round 3 Game 2 Results and Advancees to Round 4

   So far today, the trend is that games that were drawn yesterday are ending up the same, with the participants opting to go for the faster Rapid Game tiebreaks tomorrow, at least I think they are tomorrow, yep, no rest day until December 9, 2009, wow, that's a lot of chess! And some big news out of Khanty Mansiysk, GM Wesley So has eliminated GM Gata Kamsky, the US's last player in the tournament and last year's winner!

Today's results with today's game result in the middle and match scores in front, those who have advanced are in bold text.

• 1-1 Polgar Judit (HUN) 1-0 Gelfand Boris (ISR)
• 1-1 Gashimov Vugar (AZE) ½-½ Li Chao b (CHN)
• 1-1 Naiditsch Arkadij (GER) ½-½ Svidler Peter (RUS)
• 1-1 Laznicka Viktor (CZE) ½-½ Bologan Viktor (MDA)
• 1.5-0.5 Vitiugov Nikita (RUS) ½-½ Sakaev Konstantin (RUS)
• 1.5-0.5 So Wesley (PHI) ½-½ Kamsky Gata (USA)
• 0.5-1.5 Motylev Alexander (RUS) ½-½ Ponomariov Ruslan (UKR)
• 1-1 Grischuk Alexander (RUS) ½-½ Jobava Baadur (GEO)
• 1-1 Areshchenko Alexander (UKR) 1-0 Jakovenko Dmitry (RUS)
• 1-1 Wang Yue (CHN) ½-½ Bacrot Etienne (FRA)
• 1-1 Malakhov Vladimir (RUS) ½-½ Eljanov Pavel (UKR)
• 1-1 Karjakin Sergey (UKR) 1-0 Navara David (CZE)
• 0.5-1.5 Wang Hao (CHN) ½-½ Mamedyarov Shakhriyar (AZE)
• 1.5-0.5 Shirov Alexei (ESP) 1-0 Tomashevsky Evgeny (RUS)
• 1-1 Alekseev Evgeny (RUS) ½-½ Caruana Fabiano (ITA)
• 0.5-1.5 Yu Yangyi (CHN) ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave Maxime (FRA)
  
  
   
  
  
                                                                                                                                    
  

Here is Alexei Shirov's win over Evgeny Tomashevsky



Tomorrow will be very busy with tiebreak Rapid games with a few getting into some blitz tiebreak games, possibly, but maybe hostilities will cease just after the Rapid games. And then, there will be 16!