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FIDE World Championship, Round 6

FIDE World Championship, Round 6

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Boris Gelfand defeats Morozevich to join Anand in the lead!

This was the only decisive game of the round, the other 3 games were all drawn allowing Gelfand to join Anand at the top of the leaderboard.

 

The games for the round were:

GM Gelfand - GM Morozevich, 1-0

GM Leko - GM Anand, 1/2-1/2

GM Aronian - GM Kramnik, 1/2-1/2

GM Grischuk - GM Svidler, 1/2-1/2

 

The standings after round 6:

1-2) GM Anand, GM Gelfand (4/6)

3-4) GM Kramnik, GM Grischuk (3.5/6)

5-6) GM Leko, GM Aronian (2.5/6)

7-8)  GM Svidler, GM Morozevich (2/6)

 

Now I will provide full commentary and annotations for the lone decisive game of the round, GM Gelfand - GM Morozevich:

 

 

 

And here are the 3 other games from the round:

 

 

 

The pairings for round 7:

GM Anand - GM Grischuk

GM Kramnik - GM Gelfand

GM Svidler - GM Aronian

GM Morozevich - GM Leko


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