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Group 1 – final standings
Group 2 – final standings
Tiebreak games in Group 2 (rapid chess: 10 min + 5 sec/move)
| 1 | Karjakin – Bologan | Leko – Kramnik | |||
| 2 | Karjakin – Leko | Bologan – Kramnik | |
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| 3 | Leko – Bologan | Kramnik – Karjakin | |||
| 4 | Bologan – Karjakin | Kramnik – Leko | |||
| 5 | Bologan – Leko | Karjakin – Kramnik | |||
| 6 | Kramnik – Bologan | Leko – Karjakin |
Final standings
Vladimir Kramnik: 4.0; Peter Leko: 3.5; Viorel Bologan: 2.5; Sergey Karjakin: 2.0.
It is interesting to note that Peter Leko qualified by winning a single rapid chess game (in round two of the tiebreaks) against Karjakin. Also: 14-year-old Sergey Karjakin scored 2:2 in his four games against classical chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik.
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Chess on the stage of the Dortmund State Theater
The first to qualify: Vishy Anand, who had already secured a place the day
before
Peter Svidler needed only a draw with white against Anand to qualify
Viorel Bologan, last year's suprise winner, had a chance to qualify by beating...
...the 14-year-old wunderkind Sergey Karjakin, who held
A big man with a big name, but Rublevsky lost to German hopeful Arkadij Naiditsch
A key game which could have seen one top seed qualify and the other bomb
"Mr Leko, tear down this wall". Leko could not overcome Kramniks
famous Berlin Defence
Lékó Péter produces arguably the neatest scoresheets in
the game
Sometimes chess is quite painful, especially when you have to defend an inferior
line
In the end the game is drawn – like all twelve games in this group
Alone on the stage, it is a battle between man and super-boy
Peter Leko with wife Sofi at the end of round six in Dortmund
Boys and their toys: our photographer tests the macro function of his Sony
Marina of Russian TV doing a wrapup of the day's action
A local German TV station is also producing a report on the chess event
| Group 1 | Country | Birthday | |
| Viswanathan Anand | India | 11 Dec. 1969 | |
| Peter Svidler | Russia | 17 June 76 | |
| Sergei Rublevsky | Russia | 15 Oct. 74 | |
| Arkadij Naiditsch | Germany | 25 Oct. 85 |
| Group 2 | Country | Birthday | |
| Vladimir Kramnik | Russia | 25 June 75 | |
| Peter Leko | Hungary | 08 Sep. 79 | |
| Viorel Bologan | Moldavia | 14 Dec. 71 | |
| Sergey Karjakin | Ukraine | 12 Jan. 90 |
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