World Cup R6: Ponomariov to play Gelfand in the final
12/8/2009 – Ruslan Ponomariov, who in 2002 won the FIDE knockout world championship, has made it to the final of the World Cup 2009. In four rapid chess tiebreak games the Ukrainian GM lost the first but came back strongly to defeat Vladimir Malakhov, Russia, in the next three games and finish with an overall score of 4.0-2.0. Illustrated report.
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The FIDE World Chess Cup is taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk from November 20th to December 15th 2009. It is a seven-round knockout event with six rounds of matches comprising two games per round, with the winners progressing to the next round. The final seventh round consists of four games. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move from move one. Games start at 15:00h local time, which is GMT +5 hours = 11:00 a.m. European time = 5 a.m. New York. The World Chess Cup is an integral part of the World Championship Cycle 2009-2011.
Semifinals: tiebreak
Ruslan Ponomariov goes through the metal detector to enter the playing venue
His opponent physicist Vladimir Malakhov
Start of game one of the tiebreak...
... which Malakhov won in 66 moves
Ruslan trying to understand how it happened
The final position in that game
Malakhov won the first game with fine endgame technique – replay it and learn! In the second encounter it was Ponomariov who turned a bad position in a Grünfeld into an equal endgame which he proceeded to win – replay it and learn! He went on to win the third game, and in the fourth Malakhov blundered – Ponomariov was in the final.
It's all over, Malakhov is out, Ponomariov in the final
Results of round six
| Players | G1 | G2 | R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
Tot |
| Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) | 0 |
0 |
0.0 |
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| Gelfand, Boris (ISR) | 1 |
1 |
2.0 |
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| Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) | ½ |
½ |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4.0 |
| Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) | ½ |
½ |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2.0 |
Schedule of the World Cup 2009
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