3rd Round of World Chess Cup - Tiebreaks

The tiebreaks were played today and the results are above. Things are heating up. Teimur Radjabov is packing his things, as well as Emil Sutovsky and one of my favourites Lazaro Bruzon. The other player I'm shouting for, Gata Kamsky, found his way to the next round after losing first rapid game. Round 4 will be played on 6th-8th December.


Magnus Carlsen (2572) - Ivan Cheparinov (2618) 3-1
Etienne Bacrot (2725) - Emil Sutovsky (2654) 3-1
Alexander Grischuk (2720) - Yuri Shulman (2565) 2,5-1,5
Boris Gelfand (2717) - Levon Pantsulaia (2578) 4-2
Sergei Rublevsky (2652) - Baadur Jobava (2601) 2,5-1,5
Loek Van Wely (2648) - Teimur Radjabov (2704) 2,5-1,5
Alexei Dreev (2694) - Pentala Harikrishna (2673) 2,5-1,5
Gata Kamsky (2690) - Ilya Smirin (2673) 3,5-2,5
Francisco Pons (2674) - Zahar Efimenko (2637) 3-1
Joel Lautier (2679) - Evgeniy Najer (2641) 3,5-2,5
Evgeny Bareev (2675) - Lazaro Bruzon (2677) 2,5-1,5



Alexander Grischuk - Yuri Shulman
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. e4 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Qxd4 7. Bxb4 Qxe4+ 8. Be2 Na6 9. Ba5 Bd7 10. Nf3 Nf6 11. Qd6 Qf5 12. Ne5 Qxf2+ 13. Kxf2 Ne4+ 14. Kf3 Nxd6 15. Rhd1 Ke7 16. Rd2 Be8 17. Rad1 f6 18. Rxd6 fxe5 19. Ke3 h5 20. Bd8+ Kf7 21. Rf1+ Kg8 22. Be7 Nc7 23. Rd2 Rc8 24. Bd3 g6 25. Rdf2 Kh7 26. Bd6 Na6 27. Bxe5 Rg8 28. Rf7+ Bxf7 29. Rxf7+ Kh6 30. Bf4+ 1-0

Magnus Carlsen - Ivan Cheparinov
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 d6 4. Nc3 g6 5. e4 Bg7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O Na6 8.
Nd2 Nc7 9. a4 b6 10. Nc4 Ba6 11. Bf4 Bxc4 12. Bxc4 a6 13. Qe2 Nd7 14. Ra3
Qc8 15. Rb3 Rb8 16. Nb1 Ne5 17. Na3 Re8 18. Bxe5 Bxe5 19. f4 Bg7 20. f5 Qd7
21. Bxa6 Qxa4 22. Bd3 Qd4+ 23. Kh1 gxf5 24. Rxf5 e6 25. dxe6 fxe6 26. Rf1
d5 27. exd5 Rf8 28. Rd1 Qh4 29. d6 Rf2 30. dxc7 1-0

Levon Pantsulaia - Boris Gelfand
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. O-O g6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4 d6 9. Rd1 Nbd7 10. Qh4 Rc8 11. Bh6 O-O 12. b3 a6 13. Rac1 Rc5 14. Nd5 Bxh6 15. Qxh6 Bxd5 16. cxd5 Rxd5 17. Rxd5 Nxd5 18. Ng5 N5f6 19. Rc4 Re8 20. Rh4 Nf8 21. Bc6 d5 22. Bxe8 Qxe8 23. Nf3 e5 24. Qc1 d4 25. e3 d3 26. Qc3 N8d7 27. Rc4 Qe6 28. e4 Nc5 29. Qxe5 Qxe5 30. Nxe5 Nfxe4 31. b4 d2 32. Rd4 Na4 33. Nc4 Nac3 34. Rd8+ Kg7 35. Nxd2 Nf6 36. a3 a5 37. bxa5 bxa5 38. Rd3 1-0



Round 4 pairings:

Evgeny Bareev - Magnus Carlsen
Etienne Bacrot - Joel Lautier
Francisco Vallejo Pons - Levon Aronian
Alexander Grischuk - Gata Kamsky
Alexey Dreev - Boris Gelfand
Mikhail Gurevich - Vladimir Malakhov
Konstantin Sakaev - Sergei Rublevsky
Loek Van Wely - Ruslan Ponomariov