Svidler, Karjakin And Mamedyarov Into Q-Finals
The 2009 World Cup is getting to the business end of the competition, and the wins are much thinner on the ground. Only one of the eight games played today had a decisive result, although it was not through lack of effort on behalf of the players. Sergey Karjakin won with the black pieces against Nikita Vitiugov to reach the Quarter-Finals.
Joining him there thanks to wins yesterday are Peter Svidler (pictured) who disposed of Alexei Shirov, and the form player of the tournament so far, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.
That means there are still five games hanging in the balance, to be decided by playoffs tomorrow.
| Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 1.0-1.0 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA |
| Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 1.0-1.0 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE |
| Svidler, Peter | RUS | 1.5-0.5 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP |
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 1.5-0.5 | Laznicka, Viktor | CZE |
| Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 0.5-1.5 | Karjakin, Sergey | UKR |
| Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 1.0-1.0 | So, Wesley | PHI |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 1.0-1.0 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA |
| Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 1.0-1.0 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS |
