The FIDE World Cup is a knockout, starting with 128 players, with two games
(90 min for 40 moves + 30 min for the rest, with 30 seconds increment) between
pairs of players. The tiebreaks consist of two rapid games (25 min + 10
sec), then two accelerated games (10 min + 10 sec), and finally an Armageddon.
The winner and the runner-up of the World Cup 2013 will qualify for the
Candidates Tournament of the next World Championship cycle. The venue is
the city of Tromsø, which lies in the northern-most region of Norway,
almost 400 km inside the Arctic Circle. You can find all details
and links to many ChessBase
articles on Tromsø here. The World Cup starts on Sunday, August
11th and lasts until September 3rd (tiebreaks, closing ceremony). Each round
lasts three days, while the final will consist of four classical games.
Thursday August 29 is a free day. A detailed schedule can be found here.

Finals game four

Dmitri Andreikin did not go in with a big preparation, instead he chose
the somewhat quiet Symmetrical English (he's playing 1.c4 in the picture
above) as his battleground to try and outplay Vladimir Kramnik. This plan
quickly backfired as every attempt to complicate the issue made Andreikin's
position worse.

Kramnik knows that playing passively for a draw is not the best strategy
in must-draw situations. He welcomed the complications and quickly his advantage
was obvious. Despite Black's off-side knight on a5, his pawn structure was
vastly superior, which gave the rest of his pieces good play. The real mistake
came with 24.Qf3? which allowed Black to create a passed
pawn on the e3, choking the white army.

The game was far from perfect, the tension showed as every move was arguably
innacurate, but at the end the advantage proved to be too much and in the
end Andreikin offered a draw in a much worse position, giving Kramnik the
half point he needed to clinch the match.

Post mortem of the final game of the Tromsø
World Cup, with press officer Anastasiya Karlovich,
Dmitri Andreikin, New in Chess editor Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Nigel Short
and Vladimir Kramnik
Photos by Paul Trong
GM analysis of game four
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1.c4 c5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.a3 b6 6.d3 Bb7 7.Bd2 Nf6 8.Nh3!? 0-0 8...h5 9.0-0 e6 10.b4 d6 11.b5 Na5 12.e4!? d5! 13.cxd5 exd5 14.e5 Ne8! 14...Nd7 15.f4 15.f4 Nc7 16.Rb1 16.Na4 d4!? 17.Bxa5 17.Nxc5 Bxg2 18.Kxg2 Qd5+ 19.Ne4 Nb3 17...Bxg2 18.Kxg2 bxa5 16...f6! 17.exf6 17.Na4 17...Qxf6 18.Ne2 Rae8 19.g4 d4! 20.Ng3 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 Nd5 22.f5 Qe5 23.Nf4 c4 24.Qf3 24.Ne6 24...Ne3+ 25.Bxe3 dxe3 26.d4 Qd6 27.Ne4 Qxd4 28.Ng5 e2 29.Nxe2 Qd2 30.Ne4 Qc2 31.N4g3 Nb3 32.Rbd1 Kh8 33.Qf2 gxf5 34.gxf5 ½–½
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Andreikin,D | - | Kramnik,V | - | ½–½ | 2013 | A36 | FIDE World Cup 2013 | 7.4 |
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1.c4 c5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.a3 b6 6.d3 Bb7 7.Bd2 Nf6 8.Nh3 0-0 9.0-0 e6 10.b4 d6 11.b5 Na5 12.e4 d5 13.cxd5 exd5 14.e5 Ne8 15.f4 Nc7 16.Rb1 f6 17.exf6 Qxf6 18.Ne2 Rae8 19.g4 d4 20.Ng3 Bxg2 21.Kxg2 Nd5 22.f5 Qe5 23.Nf4 c4 24.Qf3 Ne3+ 25.Bxe3 dxe3 26.d4 Qd6 27.Ne4 Qxd4 28.Ng5 e2 29.Nxe2 Qd2 30.Ne4 Qc2 31.N4g3 Nb3 32.Rbd1 Kh8 33.Qf2 gxf5 34.gxf5 ½–½
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Andreikin,D | - | Kramnik,V | - | ½–½ | 2013 | A36 | FIDE World Cup 2013 | 7.4 |
Kramnik,V | - | Andreikin,D | - | ½–½ | 2013 | D45 | FIDE World Cup 2013 | 7.3 |
Andreikin,D | 2716 | Kramnik,V | 2784 | ½–½ | 2013 | D37 | FIDE World Cup 2013 | 7.2 |
Kramnik,V | 2784 | Andreikin,D | 2716 | 1–0 | 2013 | D58 | FIDE World Cup 2013 | 7.1 |
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Results of the final match
Player |
Rtg |
G1 |
G2 |
G3 |
G4 |
Pts |
Kramnik,Vladimir |
2706 |
1
|
½
|
½
|
½
|
2.5 |
Andreikin,Dmitri |
2741 |
0
|
½
|
½
|
½
|
1.5 |