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The FIDE World Chess Cup is taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk from November 20th to December 15th 2009. It is a seven-round knockout event with six rounds of matches comprising two games per round, with the winners progressing to the next round. The final seventh round consists of four games. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move from move one. Games start at 15:00h local time, which is GMT +5 hours = 11:00 a.m. European time = 5 a.m. New York. The World Chess Cup is an integral part of the World Championship Cycle 2009-2011.
Boris Gelfand, 41 years old, very convincing in the FIDE World Cup
Former boy prodigy Sergey Karjakin, 19, struggling against his experienced opponent
Karjakin,Sergey (2723) - Gelfand,B (2758) [C55]
World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk RUS (6.1), 06.12.2009
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 Nc6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.0-0 0-0 6.Bb3 d5 7.exd5 Nxd5
8.h3 a5 9.a4 Nd4 10.Nxd4 exd4 11.Re1N
11...Ra6! A very interesting piece sacrifice (12.Bxd5 Qxd5 13.Rxe7 Rg6 – with the threat of 14...Qxg2#) immediately after Karjakin's novelty, which the Ukrainian did not dare to accept. 12.Qh5 Nb4 13.Na3 Rg6 14.Bf4 b6 15.Qf3 Be6 16.Bxe6 fxe6 17.Qe4 Bd6 18.Bxd6 cxd6 19.Qxd4
White is a pawn up, but Black is calling all the shots. 19...Qg5 (once again the annoying threat of ...Qxg2#) 20.g3 Qf5 21.g4 h5 22.Re4 d5 23.Kh2 Qf3 24.Ree1 hxg4 25.Qe3 gxh3 26.Qxf3 Rxf3 27.Rg1 Rxf2+ 28.Kxh3 Rxg1 29.Rxg1 Nxc2 30.Nb5 Rf3+ 31.Kg4 Rxd3
White has ended up three pawns down and not a hope left to survive. 32.Nd6 Ne3+ 33.Kf4 Nc4 0-1.
Gelfand vs Karjakin, closely followed by arbiter Mahdi Abdulrahim and
Ruslan Ponomariov
Ponomariov-Malakhov was a well-fought Slav that ended in a drawn four-bishop
endgame
Ruslan Ponomariov, former FIDE World Champion, in the semifinal of the World
Cup
Photos by Galina Popova courtesy of FIDE
| Players | G1 | G2 | Tot |
| Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) | 0 |
0.0 |
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| Gelfand, Boris (ISR) | 1 |
1.0 |
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| Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) | ½ |
0.5 |
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| Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) | ½ |
0.5 |
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Links
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