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The President's Cup – Azerbaijan vs FIDE World – is an eight-round rapid chess tournament pitting the best players in the Republic of Azeirbaijan against a FIDE selection of top players from the rest of the world. The latter includes current World Champion Viswanathan Anand and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. The games are played in the capital Baku, in the "UNS" Creative Stage theatre, starting in the late afternoon local time – 15:00h CEST.
Round 3: Friday, May 8th, 2009 |
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| Anand, Viswanathan |
½-½ |
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar |
Shirov, Alexei |
½-½ |
Radjabov, Teimour |
Gashimov, Vugar |
½-½ |
Karjakin, Sergey |
Guseinov, Gadir |
0-1 |
Kramnik, Vladimir |
Round 4: Friday, May 8th, 2009 |
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| Karjakin, Sergey |
1-0 |
Radjabov, Teimour |
Gashimov, Vugar |
½-½ |
Shirov, Alexei |
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar |
0-1 |
Kramnik, Vladimir |
Mamedov, Rauf |
½-½ |
Anand, Viswanathan |
Round 5: Friday, May 8th, 2009 |
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| Karjakin, Sergey |
1-0 |
Gashimov, Vugar |
Kramnik, Vladimir |
1-0 |
Guseinov, Gadir |
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar |
½-½ |
Anand, Viswanathan |
Radjabov, Teimour |
½-½ |
Shirov, Alexei |
The total score after five rounds of play is
| Azerbaijan |
7 -
13 |
FIDE World |
An historic picture – in 1998 the president of the Azerbaijan, Aliyev
Heyidar, poses with Rauf Mamedov (10 years old), Vugar Gashimov (12), Teimour
Radjabov (11) and Gadir Guseinov (11) – the four best players in their
age group.
Today you see these young boys as world-class players on posters
The FIDE World team, with players from Hindustan, Rusiya, Ispaniya and Ukraina
Aned both teams in the glass front of the theatre
Bustle at the start of a round in the carpeted Theatre venue
Spotted in the audience: Alexander Karjakin, Sergey's father; Marie-Laure, wife
of Vladimir Kramnik; Aruna, wife of Vishy Anand, and Marina Makarycheva, Russian
TV journalist
Taking a break: today's big winners Sergey Karjakin and Vladimir Kramnik
(with Marie-Laure)
| Saturday, May 8, 2009 | 16:00h | Round six |
| 17:30h | Round seven | |
| 19:00h | Round eight | |
| 20:30h | Closing ceremony |
LinksThe game scores coming out of Baku are not in great condition – many are incomplete or missing. We will be updating the PGN file with the help of our colleague at TWIC. In the meantime you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase Light to read, replay and analyse the PGN games. It also gives you immediate access to the Playchess.com server. |
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