Dortmund R6: Anand, Svidler, Kramnik, Leko

Round six – Tuesday, July 27

Group 1 – final standings

Group 2 – final standings

• All games from the first stage in PGN

Tiebreak games in Group 2 (rapid chess: 10 min + 5 sec/move)

• Tiebreak not availble yet

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.

Semifinals

Picture Gallery

By Jeroen van den Belt

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...

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

Participants

Full schedule and scoresheet