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Although they played out their games, they lacked the loose uncompromising quality
that made the Kramnik-Aronian match such a success.
Inspired by the resounding success of the Kramnik-Aronian match earlier this year, Dmitry Andreikin, the reigning Russian champion, and Ian Nepomniachtchi, the former European and Russian champion played a six game match at the RSSU, the International Chess Education Center in Moscow, Russia. Just as in the aforementioned match, they agreed to play a rapid game should their classical game of the day end in a draw with less than three hours of play.
Ian Nepomniachtchi has had a quiet year thus far
The time control was 40 moves in 90 minutes, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game and a 30-second increment as of move one. The match was broadcast on ChessTV, just as the Istanbul Olympiads had, as well as the English commentary of the World Championship match between Anand and Gelfand, and enjoyed live commentary, in Russian, by GM Sergey Shipov.
Dmitry
Andreikin is the reigning Russian champion
The match was won by Dmitry Andreikin with 3.5-2.5 after a win in the first game followed by five draws. The draw in the final game was followed by a rapid game played at fifteen minutes and a ten-second increment, the only one of the match, which was won by Nepomniachtchi.
Here is the win in game one:
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