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World Cup10th September – 5th OctoberBaku, Azerbaijan
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It certainly won't go down in history as one of the best games of chess, but at least there weren't any major blunders in the fourth game of the finals of the World Cup. Svidler's choice of opening left him in a passive position in which he had few weaknesses, but shortly after concluding theory his position deteriorated. He was saddled with a weak d6 pawn, and problems with one of his rooks. Karjakin's technique was not a masterpiece, and Svidler had chances to equalize later on, but he did not take advantage of them. When given the opportunity, Karjakin correctly simplified into a winning rook endgame and capitalized on his opponent's mistakes, forcing the tiebreak playoff tomorrow.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov came for the last two days
Karjakin forces the tiebreaks after being down 2-0
Svidler really doesn't have anyone to blame but himself. Yesterday he had a chance to win the game, and today he had a couple of opportunities to come close to equalizing, if not equalizing fully in the endgame.
The action will continue tomorrow at 12:00 European Time. The tiebreak rules are the same as the previous matches, only two games per time control. No matter what, tomorrow we will finally have a World Cup winner declared.
Player | Rtg |
G1
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G2
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G3 | G4 | G5 | G6 | G7 | G8 | G9 | G10 | G11 |
Pts
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Peter Svidler (RUS) | 2727 |
1
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1
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0
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0
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2.0
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Sergey Karjakin (RUS) | 2762 |
0
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0
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1
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1
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2.0
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