Tournaments 2004-2005

[mugu]

A crushing victory, with white, over Kasimdzhanov for Anand. But, is it too late even for the second place!

Standings (after 11th round):

1 Topalov 8.5
2 Svidler 7
3 Anand 6.5
4 Morozevich 5.5
5 Leko 5
6 Kasimdzhanov 4.5
7 Adams 4
8 Polgar 3

[mugu]

Anand looks to be going full steam ahead towards the end. Too late anyway, though he has salvaged some of his reputation in the last two rounds. A brilliant victory with Black over Leko in the 12th round puts him in joint second with Svidler
Standings (after 12 rounds)

Topalov 9
Anand 7.5
Svidler 7.5
Morozevich 6
Leko 5
Kasimdzhanov 5
Adams 4.5
Polgar 3.5

[sameerph]

Suddenly Anand seems to be on rampage. Wish he had shown same form earlier. Now he has a chance of finishing 2nd.
Nothing great really for player of Anand's calibere . He had his best chance of winning World chamoinship in absence of Kasparov.

[arjun2761]

Hope Anand does finish strong and take 2nd place. It is quite an achievement being the second best player in the World although Anand has the ability to be the best. None the less we should recognize true world class performances since we have very few of those.....

[Indian]

Veselin Topalov is the new World Champ! Anand finished second.

Official final rankings:
1 Veselin Topalov 10
2 Vishwanathan Anand 8.5
3 Peter Svidler 8.5
4 Alexander Morozevich 7
5 Peter Leko 6.5
6 Rustam Kasimjanov 5.5
7 Michael Adams 5.5
8 Judit Polgar 4.5

[Indian]

World Cup 2005
The FIDE World Chess Cup takes place 26th November - 18th December 2005 in Khanty Mansyisk, Russia.

Pentala Harikrishna, Krishnan Saiskiran and Surya Sekhar Ganguly playing.

Official Site:
http://www.worldchesscup2005.com/main.asp?cat=0

Seven (7) rounds of matches, comprising two (2) games per round, with the winners progressing to the next round. From round four (4) the players will continue playing until places 1 to 16 are decided.

First round:
In first round, Indian national champion Ganguly eliminated USA National Champion Hikaru Nakamura by winning both the games (2-0). Nakamura is rated around 100 points above Ganguly.
Sasikiran advanced to second round with 1.5-0.5 score over Iljushin, Alexei (RUS).
Harikrishna is tied 1-1 after 2 games and will play tie-breaker tomorrow.

results/games here:
http://www.worldchesscup2005.com/round.asp?cat=2

[jaydeep]

Thanks Indian for starting this World Chess Cup thread ... Yes Ganguly managed biggest upset of the tournament considering Nakamura rated as one of the favourites.

Sasi also moves into second round ... Hopefully Hari will make it all win record for Indians in first round.

Jaydeep.

[Varma]

Hari won both the tiebreak games to join Ganguly and Sasikiran in the second round!!!

Schedule for Wednesday....

Harikrishna (IND, 21st seed, 2673) vs Giovanni Vescovi (BRA, 44th seed, 2646)
Sasikiran (IND, 26th seed, 2663) vs Sergei Rublevsky (RUS, 39th seed, 2652)
Ganguly (IND, 101st seed, 2562) vs Levan Pantsulaia (GRG, 92nd seed, 2578)

- Varma

[India1989]

Wow that is good. Lets see who wins among these people. I gess that if we try hard then we can beat all of them.

[viji]

Harikrishna loses with black.
Sasikiran wins with white.
Ganguly draws with white.
http://www.worldchesscup2005.com/results.asp?cat=2
Hope game 2 results are better.

[India1989]

1 win,
1 loss
1 draw.

Wow it is even.

[sameerph]

Hari win in game 2 with white , Sasi loses with black & Ganguly draws with black. So all 3 are tied 1-1 after 2 games & will play tie-breakers.

[Kumar]

Another mixed day.. Hopefully all of them can win the tie breakers...

[jaydeep]

Good fightback from Hari ... Lets hope our guys rise to the challenge.

Jaydeep.

[viji]

Harikrishna wins the first blitz game with w.
Sasikiran loses the first blitz game with b.
Ganguly loses in the rapids.
......................

Harikrishna moves on to next round by winning with black as well.
I think he faces Dreev next.

Sasikiran draws the second blitz game with white. Too bad!