The fourth and final long game of the FIDE World Cup final ended, like the first three, in a (35-move) draw. That left the players, Boris Gelfand of Israel and Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine, tied 2:2 and going into the tiebreaks. The winner earns a place in the FIDE world championship match and pockets $96,000. The runner up gets $64,000. Musically illustrated report.
Archive for December 13th, 2009
World Cup final: Ponomariov-Gelfand go to tiebreaks
Sunday, December 13th, 2009London R4: All games drawn, but fighting chess
Sunday, December 13th, 2009Draws like those in round four of the London Chess Classic are exciting and
instructive. We know this from following the games live with GM commentary at
the venue and on the Playchess server.
And after the games chess fans all over the world could listen to all eight
players annotating their games. At least two had people holding their breath.
Full illustrated report with analysis.