Kamsky Exits World Cup
The 2007 World Cup champion, Gata Kamsky (pictured), has been knocked out of the current competition in round three by Wesley So. Kamsky needed a win after losing the first game yesterday, but it wasn't to be.
Elsewhere, Judit Polgar avoided Gelfand's Petroff defence and pulled a nice win out of the bag to keep her hopes alive. Sergei Karjakin also won his game against David Navara to level the scores and take their match to tie-breaks.
With a total of 10 out of 16 matches still undecided, tomorrow's playoffs will be a busy day!
The scores after today's games are below. The full brackets for the event can be found here.
| 1 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 1.0-1.0 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR |
| 2 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 1.0-1.0 | Li, Chao |
CHN |
| 3 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 1.0-1.0 | Svidler, Peter | RUS |
| 4 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 1.0-1.0 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA |
| 5 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 1.5-0.5 | Sakaev, Konstantin | RUS |
| 6 | So, Wesley | PHI | 1.5-0.5 | Kamsky, Gata | USA |
| 7 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 0.5-1.5 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR |
| 8 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 1.0-1.0 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO |
| 9 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 1.0-1.0 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS |
| 10 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 1.0-1.0 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA |
| 11 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 1.0-1.0 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR |
| 12 | Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 1.0-1.0 | Navara, David | CZE |
| 13 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 0.5-1.5 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE |
| 14 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 1.5-0.5 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS |
| 15 | Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 1.0-1.0 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA |
| 16 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 0.5-1.5 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA |
