Filipino Wesley So bowed out of the World Chess
Cup after losing to Russian Vladimir Malakhov while top seed
Boris Gelfand of Israel had to dig deep into his vast reserve
of experience to come out victorious, here.
|Last Updated: Dec 03, 2009, 10:56 AM IST|Source: Bureau
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Filipino super talent Wesley So bowed out of the World Chess
Cup after losing to Russian Vladimir Malakhov while top seed
Boris Gelfand of Israel had to dig deep into his vast reserve
of experience to come out victorious, here.
After accounting for big guns like Vassily Ivanchuk and
Gata Kamksy, Wesley So found his nemesis in Malakhov, who
defeated the teenager in the first set of rapid tie-breaker to
win the match by a 4-1 margin.
The match between Gelfand and world junior champion
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave was decided via the blitz stage. They
drew all the four rapid games but Gelfand eventually had the
last laugh as he secured himself in first set of blitz
tie-breaker.
It was a similar result in the duel between Russians
Alexander Grischuk and Dmitry Jakovenko. Grischuk gave
Jakovenko a taste of his own medicine in the blitz games and
won both in the first blitz tie-breaker itself.
Italian teenager Caruana Fabiano of Italy went down in
the rapid games against second seed Vugar Gashimov.
It was an almost identical loss for both Wesley and
Caruana. While Wesley lost the first three of the four
tiebreak games, Caruana was out done in two besides the lone
draw he could manage against his Azerbaijani opponent.
The other player to win in rapid tie-breaker was former
world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine who got the better
of Etienne Bacrot of France in the fourth and final rapid game
after the first three ended in draws.
PTI
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