Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Word Cup 2009 Round 4 Tiebreak game 1 pairings and those in Round 5

Here are the pairings for game 1 of the Rapid Tiebreaks for Round 4 tomorrow.  3 players have already advanced into Round 5, I will post them after the pairings..  I hope I get the colors right for the first game, it looks like on the official page which players are due white.  We shall see if I end up editing tomorrow :)

Round 4 Rapid Tiebreak Game 1 of possible 4 games at 25 mins +10 sec. inc. if still tied after these games, then follows a series of Blitz games, a Match of 2 Games at 5 mins +3 sec. inc. (Max. of 10 games) if after 2 games of standard chess, 4 games of rapid chess and 10 games of blitz chess, THEN it comes down to.....
Armageddon! Players draw lots for an important decision, whether to take White with 5 minutes and HAVE to win the game OR take black with 4 minutes on the clock and HOLD A DRAW with the time handicap to win the Armageddon game, there's only 1 game, so far it hasn't come to that in any of the rounds yet.

Round 4 Rapid Game 1

  • 1.0-1.0 17. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2718 (FRA) * 1. Boris Gelfand 2758 (ISR)
  • 1.0-1.0 8. Alexander Grischuk 2736 (RUS) * 9. Dmitry Jakovenko 2736 (RUS)
  • 1.0-1.0 2. Vugar Gashimov 2758 (AZE) * 50. Fabiano Caruana 2652 (ITA)
  • 1.0-1.0 23. Etienne Bacrot 2700 (FRA) * 7. Ruslan Ponomariov 2739 (UKR)
  • 1.0-1.0 59. Wesley So 2640 (PHI) * 22. Vladimir Malakhov 2706 (RUS)
Those who have already advanced to round 5:
 
3. Peter Svidler 2754 (RUS)
12 Sergey Karjakin 2723 (UKR)
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2719 (AZE)

The lowest seeds still hanging in there are 59. Wesley So, 50. Fabiano Caruana and seeds 1 and 2 are still at risk of getting upset, seed 1 being Boris Gelfand 2758 and 2 Vugar Gashimov 2758 as well, it seems they weren't picked alphabetically but seeds 8 & 9 both rated 2736, Alexander Grischuk and Dmitry Jakovenko are seeded alphabetically.  Who knows, FIDE works in mysterious ways ;-)
 

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