100 Chess Players Timeline Chart

This is a graphical chart showing the timeline of 100 chess personalities from the 19th century until Gary Kasparov. The aims is only to show the interconnection between chess player and who meets who in the era. I hope this can do something to the understanding of chess history. Enjoy.

The Chess personalities listed:

Name,Born, Death

Francois Andre Philidor 1726-1795
The Turk 1770-1854, "active" time
Alexandre Deschapelles 1780-1847
William Lewis 1787-1870
Capt. William Evans 1790-1872
Alexander Petrov 1794-1867
Louis-Charles La Bourdonnais 1795-1840
Alexander McDonnell 1798-1835
John Cochrane 1798-1878
Pierre Charles de Saint-Amant 1800-1872
Lionel Kieseritzky 1806-1853
Bernhard Horwitz 1807-1885
Howard Staunton 1810-1874
Janos Lowenthal 1810-1876
Carl von Jaenisch 1813-1872
Adolf Anderssen 1818-1879
Ernst Falkbeer 1819-1885
Celso Golmayo Zupide 1820-1898
Marcus Kann 1820-1886
Daniel Harrwitz 1823-1884
Rev. John Owen 1827-1901
Henry Bird 1830-1908
Max Lange 1832-1899
Louis Paulsen 1833-1891
Wilhelm Steinitz 1836-1900
Paul Morphy 1837-1884
Ignatz Kolisch 1837-1889
Samuel Rosenthal 1837-1902
George Henry Mackenzie 1837-1891
Szymon Winawer 1838-1920
Gustav Neumann 1838-1881
Joseph Henry Blackburne 1841-1924
Johannes Zukertort 1842-1888
Amos Burn 1848-1925
Adolf Albin 1848-1920
James Mason 1849-1905
Adolf Stern 1849-1907
Mikhail Chigorin 1850-1908
Isidor Gunsberg 1854-1930
Semyon Alapin 1856-1923
Max Weiss 1857-1927
Siegbert Tarrasch 1862-1934
Horatio Caro 1862-1920
Jacques Mieses 1865-1954
Dawid Janowski 1868-1927
Emanuel Lasker 1868-1941
Richard Teichmann 1868-1925
Geza Maroczy 1870-1951
Harry Nelson Pillsbury 1872-1906
Carl Schlecter 1874-1918
Frank Marshall 1877-1944
Akiba Rubinstein 1882-1961
Ossip Bernstein 1882-1962
Rudolf Spielmann 1883-1942
Benjamin Blumenfeld 1884-1947
Milan Vidmar 1885-1962
Aron Nimzowitsch 1886-1935
Savielly Tartakower 1887-1956
Jose Raul Capablanca 1888-1942
Efim Bogoljubov 1889-1952
Richard Reti 1889-1929
Grigory Levenfish 1889-1961
Alexander Alekhine 1892-1946
Ernst Grunfeld 1893-1962
Edgard Colle 1897-1932
Octavio Trompowsky 1897-1984
Max Euwe 1901-1981
Salo Landau 1903-1943
Vasja Pirc 1907-1980
Salo Flohr 1908-1983
Viacheslav Ragozin 1908-1962
Emil Josef Diemer 1908-1990
Miguel Najdorf 1910-1997
Harry Golombek 1911-1995
Samuel Reshevsky 1911-1992
Andor Lilienthal 1911-2010
Mikhail Botvinnik 1911-1995
Reuben Fine 1914-1993
Paul Keres 1916-1975
Laszlo Szabo 1917-1998
Vasily Smyslov 1921-2010
Yuri Averbakh 1922-
David Bronstein 1924-2006
Efim Geller 1925-1998
Mark Taimanov 1926-
Jan Hein Donner 1927-1988
Pal Benko 1928-
Tigran Petrosian 1929-1984
Viktor Korchnoi 1931-
Bent Larsen 1935-2010
Mikhail Tal 1936-1992
Lajos Portisch 1937-
Boris Spassky 1937-
Gennadi Sosonko 1943-
Bobby Fischer 1943-2008
Vlastimil Hort 1944-
Robert Hubner 1948-
Anatoly Karpov 1951-
Garry Kasparov 1963-

 
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Peter Svidler Juara Piala Dunia 2011

Peter Svidler, pecatur Russia berusia 35 tahun akhirnya tampil menjadi juara Piala Dunia edisi tahun ini. Svidler bermain remis di partai ke empat babak final, dia melawan sesama pecatur Russia Alexander Grischuk. Hasil remis ini cukup untuk mengantar Peter mencapai prestasi tertingginya hingga saat ini, karena di partai pertama sudah mengantongi satu kemenangan. Skor babak final Svidler vs Grischuk adalah 2.5-1.5.     website domain hosting

Di babak perebutan juara ketiga, pecatur Ukraina GM Vassily Ivanchuk yang juga seangkatan Svidler berhasil menjawab fansnya dengan mengalahkan rekan senegara GM Ruslan Ponomariov. Ivanchuk berada pada posisi tertekan sepanjang partai ke empat ini, di mana terjadi pembelaan Ratu Hindia (Queen Indian Defence, E15). Melewati permainan tengah yang kurang defensif, Ivanchuk masuk ke permainan akhir dengan kalah satu bidak, di mana posisi komputer memberi nilai hingga +1.8 untuk putih. Tapi di tengah desakan jam catur, Ponomariov bermain tidak akurat di langkah 50.Kg4, menyebabkan Ivanchuk berhasil mengaktifkan Bishop / Gajah hitam yang terkurung, dengan langkah ...f3 dan ...Kh8!. Dengan pengorbanan sementara bidak f3, hitam berhasil mencapai posisi remis 2 Kuda + 1 bidak melawan Kuda,Gajah + 1 bidak.

Hasil Piala Dunia edisi ini mengkonfirmasi Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk dan Vassily Ivanchuk masuk ke turnamen perebutan Kandidat penantang Juara Dunia Vishwanathan Anand, di mana dipastikan salah satu peserta adalah juga GM Boris Gelfand dari Israel. Turnamen kandidat akan diikuti delapan peserta, yang sebelumnya juga disaring dari elo rating, berarti GM Magnus Carlsen dan Vladimir Kramnik berpeluang ikut serta. Dan terakhir ditambah pecatur unggulan dari panitia atau tuan rumah.

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Partai Catur Piala Dunia 2011 - Final Grischuk vs Svidler

Event Piala Dunia Catur / World Cup di Khanty Mansiysk sedang berlangsung di awal bulan September 2011. Dan hingga malam ini, turnamen ini telah mencapai babak final dengan partisipan GM Alexander Grischuk tampil menantang GM yang lebih veteran, yaitu GM Peter Svidler. Grischuk sebelumnya menumbangkan GM Vassily Ivanchuk yang juga seangkatan Svidler dalam partai semifinal, di mana Ivanchuk melakukan blunder di partai catur cepat tie break ke-tiga. Akibatnya Ivanchuk musti bertarung kembali dengan GM Ruslan Ponomariov (yang dikalahkan Svidler di semifinal) demi memperoleh tiket ke turnamen Kandidat. Piala Dunia kali ini menghadiahkan tiga tiket ke turnamen Kandidat (untuk menantang juara dunia GM Viswanathan Anand), yaitu juara I, II dan III. AdWords campaign , car insurance

Di laga final kemaren GM Peter Svidler telah mengumpulkan satu point penuh hasil kemenangannya dengan buah hitam. Grischuk melakukan kesalahan taktis di partai mereka yang berlangsung dengan pembelaan Sisilia variasi Kan. Komentar untuk partai tersebut sudah saya terjemahkan di PGN viewer di bawah ini.

Di laga final hari ini (partai kedua), Svidler - Grischuk main remis, tetapi justru Ivanchuk berhasil mencuri satu poin dari Ponomariov (di laga perebutan juara III). Sangat diharapkan favorit saya, Ivanchuk bisa ikut tampil kembali di turnamen Kandidat, di mana sepanjang karir Ivanchuk dia hampir tidak pernah "menggapai" tangga untuk menjadi Kandidat penantang Juara Catur Dunia. Grischuk, Ponomariov dan Svidler sendiri masing-masing sudah pernah mengenyam prestasi dunia, Ponomariov adalah mantan Juara Piala Dunia 2002, Svidler pernah masuk ke turnamen Kandidat beberapa tahun lalu dan Grischuk barusan tahun ini dikalahkan pecatur Israel Boris Gelfand di partai final Kandidat catur tahun ini, di mana Boris Gelfand menang dan berhak menantang juara Dunia dari India Viswanathan Anand. Berikut partai catur Grischuk - Svidler. (game viewer ini lebih lancar tampil di desktop/laptop, tidak lancar di android)

Link Turnamen Piala Dunia ini domain hosting name
http://chess.ugrasport.com/

Partai Pembelaan Sisilia Kan
Partai Catur Alexander Grischuk vs Peter Svidler, 0-1 Khanty-Mansiysk 2011 Round 7
ECO B45 - Sicilian Kan

2011 Chess World Cup Final Svidler vs Grischuk

Although Svidler vs Grischuk is the real final, I have the feeling Ivanchuk vs Ponomariov will be more the adrenalin rising match. The millions question is, will Ivanchuk qualified for the next candidate match? From the day before, surely Ivanchuk is where fan's eyes going to, hoping for Planet Chucky as one of the entertainment in the, usually, boring candidate rendezvous.

The day before Ivanchuk losing to Grischuk, Ponomariov stated that to be the third person qualified is his highest priority now. And with current circumstance, with Ivanchuk haunted on his 1 seconds blunder, in better position, vs the two days fresh man waiting, Ivanchuk's task will be difficult. Analysis completed. But .... as many older generation fans, we are ok to sacrifice Pono for Chucky to sit on the third spot. So go Chucky, please beat the odd!

Here facts for final 2011 of Chess World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk.

After Ponomariov eliminated, it is confirmed another new name for World Cup champion. After Ivanchuk stopped, it is confirmed a new Russian champion, the first after Khalifman (and Kramnik)!

Peter Svidler gone to the final in good shape. After round III, he straighly gone 2-0 to Kamsky, and 1.5-0.5 to Judit Polgar and Ruslan Ponomariov. So far Svidler is on 9 wins and 9 draws. See the statistic of his previous tournament, the Russian Champ, we have enough trend that he will able to reach the title.

Alexander Grischuk, on other hand, have another great factor in chess, luck. His second game with Morozevich, gone "lucky" as Morozevich "not in fighting mood". Same thing, with Potkin and Navara it was plenty of luck Grischuk had. And obviously with Ivanchuk yesterday. So Grischuk went to final with 9-2-11 draws. Grischuk will at least repeat his appearances in Candidate matches.

So chessgames.com database entry for the final pairings, and put your online bookie now for:

Peter Svidler vs Alexander Grischuk
"Peter Svidler beat Alexander Grischuk 9 to 7, with 21 draws"

and

Vasily Ivanchuk vs Ruslan Ponomariov
"Vassily Ivanchuk tied Ruslan Ponomariov 7 to 7, with 16 draws"

website domain for Chess World Cup : http://chess.ugrasport.com/ , live chess online website http://www.chessbomb.com/ , chess news http://www.whychess.org/

and enjoy the last battle.

Chess World Cup 2011 Semifinals

This year's Chess World Cup semi finalist are set:

Ruslan Ponomariov vs Peter Svidler

This first pairing of Ukraine vs Russian, generations of the 2000s vs 1990s is set after both eliminated their quarter final opponents in "normal" games. Both are familiar enough each other. They are 27 games in chess games database played from year 2000 until now. For this data Ponomariov surprising on greater score with 7-5-15 (draws). Ponomariov is now proved very specialist in K.O. setting, while Peter is on his top form, previously winning top league of Russian. In post interview after his games with Gashimov, Ponomariov set his target not the be the fourth place of semifinalist, as that will not earned him to Candidate challengers match. This is the repeated pairing of 2002 World Cup, also in semifinal where Pono won. Fact is, Ponomariov get the same pairing also in quarter final vs Gashimov, same as in 2009. Mean, less time to work on repertoire against them.

                                                Vassily Ivanchuk vs Alexander Grischuk

Second pairing, Alexander Grischuk is the only player to "tasted" recent World Champion KO candidate, where he reach final only to lost to Boris Gelfand. While Ivanchuk strongest KO tournament is the 2002 World Cup where he lost to Ponomariov. The chess database software of chessgames.com still put greater score for Ivanchuk 9-5-15 (draws).

If lucky enough, I will book money for Svidler vs Ivanchuk in final and let God decided who to win in this dream pairing. Both Svidler and Ivanchuk are "veteran" enough in era 2011 to deserved one more glory.
So, this semis is also about who didn't reach the three spots for next candidate match.

Partai semi final Piala Dunia Catur 2011 telah ditentukan malam ini, setelah Vassily Ivanchuk, pecatur Ukraina mengalahkan saingannya Teimour Radjabov. Vassily Ivanchuk yang pecatur angkatan 1980-1990 ini akan menghadapi pecatur generasi berikutnya Alexander Grischuk dari Russia. Grischuk adalah pecatur terakhir yang dikalahkan penantang Juara Catur tahun ini, Boris Gelfand dari Israel. Partai Ivanchuk vs Grischuk akan segera dimulai esok.

Partai semifinal lainnya adalah , juga pecatur Ukraina vs Rusia. Berhadapan adalah Ruslan Ponomariov vs Peter Svidler. Kembali terjadi saingan antara pecatur angkatan 1980-1990 Peter Svidler melawan pecatur generasi 2000an Ruslan Ponomariov. Perlu diingat Ponomariov adalah pecatur specialist turnamen sistem gugur, dia pernah menjuarai turnamen KO Piala Dunia ini tahun 2002 alias Juara Dunia FIDE tahun 2002. Kebetulan lawannya saat itu adalah Peter Svidler di Semifinal and Ivanchuk di Final.

Web domain name  untuk siaran langsung catur :
http://www.chessbomb.com/ atau http://www.whychess.org/

Dr Nazrin Shah KL Open - Oliver Barbosa Wins

Although the chess-result.com shows IM Nguyen Doc Hoa as first position finisher, but it is confirmed in Peter Long chess and klchess.com that Phillipino IM Oliver Barbosa is the winner of Dr Nazrin Shah KL Open 2011. The Kuala Lumpur Chess website also confirmed GM title on pape for IM Oliver Barbosa and Richard Bitoon, as well IM tile and GM norm for Jahongir Vakhidov of Uzbekistan.

Indonesian delegation in Open name the best performer is IM Tirta Purnama, with 6.5/9 rounds, he is tie second in theory. GM Megaranto, straight from World Chess Cup in Siberia, finished 5.5/9 , drawing many games and slighty under performed here. WGM Irene Sukandar is also 5.5/9 but she is "over performed" in relation to her rating, she is undefeated (as well Megaranto).

IM Dede Lioe and GM Cerdas Barus also in positive result 5.5/9. More stories and photos at http://www.klchess.com/ with Peter Long reporting.

Dr Nazrin Shah Kuala Lumpur 2011 result here

2011 World Chess Cup Judit Joint Quarter Final

Come back from her first game lost to L.Dominguez, Judit Polgar bounced and bounced from any kind of positions into a winning one. Her second normal round against Dominguez was an epic battle up to hundred moves, she sure missed the "easy" Kc1 mate, then she went through a random moves of R+B vs R endgame and finally found the winning pattern to secured the tie break.

Easy mate in Dominguez - Polgar, R4 G2 World Cup 2011, Black to moves

On tie break, Judit executed again, the Sicilian as Black and get quite straightforward win. But the second tie break, Judith went "not drawish" opening, the Scandinavian, and quickly got drug by the Cuban and drag into hard work once again. Here another drama happening, the third game worked almost a win for Black's Sicilian, but then again Dominguez out of nowhere take the poisonous pawn on b2 and Judit line up forces of Queen and Rook is enough to push a win. And so did the fourth game bring back Dominguez, and both enjoying themself to the blitz. It is only the last blitz, Judit manage to score final point, with Black side of Sicilian.

So, Judit will play Peter Svidler, whom sitting comfortably waiting since yesterday, after he eliminated Kamsky in no less spectacular game than Judit's.

And here the database link for quarter final pairings, World Chess Cup 2011, Khanty Mansyisk.

Judit Polgar vs Peter Svidler
Now chess fans will need to divide sympathy between the sensasional Judit and the charming Peter. According to Peter, he got difficulty against the two (Dominguez)! The chessgames database confirmed the two is equal and splitting point several times.

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Gashimov survived the last dynamite of Danish Peter Nielsen. Peter is extremely solid theoritician, worked as second to Anand and this proved fatal on the second normal game against Gashimov. After secured the first rapid, Gashimov fall to Judit's behaviour, playing his specialty yet "non drawish" Benoni gambit.

Nielsen tamed Gashimov's Benoni, and move 55.Rxd6! taken the extra piece in a careful minutes calculation in the thread of Black's coming promotion.

Gashimov still got the sting in this second rapid game but then his elo confirmed superiority on the last two rapid games. Now Gashimov going to play Ponomariov, who also got difficulty eliminating Lazaro Bruzon. Ponomariov himself outplayed Gashimov, in database.

Vugar Gashimov vs Ruslan Ponomariov

Same result going for Ivanchuk versus Radjabov, with positive score on Ivanchuk. Although Radjabov get one extra rest day and Ivanchuk himself performed "solid" in between blunders.

Vasily Ivanchuk vs Teimour Radjabov

And finally , mr.Fair Play Navara to play Grischuk. Navara is also one day extra to prepare, and Grischuk playing hard against Potkin in the tie break. Navara is nowday a player seems going nowhere in the realm of European chess scene, while Grischuk is settle quite strong in Russian and quite success in elite tournament. This should be the only chance for Navara to rise himself, not only as a nice guy. Database only show two games and a win for Grischuk.

David Navara vs Alexander Grischuk

KL Open 2011 R-6 Perfect Nguyen Duc Hoa

Far from the spotlight of World Cup in Siberian wizland, happening in Malaysia now Dr. Nazrin Shah International Open aka Kuala Lumpur Open. In Open section, where there are more crowded than the “invitational” section, top seeding is Pinoy GM Joseph Sanchez and GM Megaranto Susanto followed second.


Dominating on top now, are Vietnamese IM Nguyen Duc Hoa, with perfect 6.0/6.0 included wins over four IMs : IM Purnama Tirta Chandra, IM Oliver Dimakiling, IM Brian Kelly from Ireland and Chinese IM Liu Qingnan. This rocket the performance to 3132 out of his elo 2460!

Other Indonesian closer keep up competition, until round six, GM Megaranto collected 4.5 point, taken from three wins and thre draws. Follow by GM Cerdas Barus with same 4.0/6 rounds and same to WGM Irene K. Sukandar as well.

Rank after round 6 are :

1 IM Nguyen Duc Hoa VIE 2460 6.0
2 IM Yap Kim Steven PHI 2396 5.0
3 IM Ranola Yves PHI 2366 5.0
4 Olay Edgar Reggie PHI 2303 4.5
5 GM Megaranto Susanto INA 2530 4.
6 IM Kelly Brian IRL 2488 4.0
7 IM Dimakiling Oliver PHI 2414 4.0
8 IM Liu Qingnan CHN 2430 4.0
9 IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 2427 4.0
10 GM Barus Cerdas INA 2438 4.
11 IM Purnama Tirta Chandra INA 2368 4.
12 WIM Nguyen Thi Mai Hung VIE 2286 4.0
13 WGM Sukandar Irine Kharisma INA 2330 4.0
14 Udani Ian PHI 2307 4.0
15 IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2457 4.0
16 IM Lioe Dede INA 2402 4.0
17 IM Duong The Anh VIE 2378 4.0
18 GM Sanchez Joseph PHI 2544 4.0
19 Legaspi, Rhobel PHI 2313 4.0
20 WGM Pham Le Thao Nguyen VIE 2362 4.0

2011 World Cup Round 4 - Moiseenko - Navara Draw case

As for other interesting story of round 3, are Judith Polgar knocked out seeded no.1 Sergey Karjakin and now she waiting for :

Judith Polgar vs Lysyj / Dominguez
Yes, both gentleman fought till Armageddon to play the only female opponent of the house. Judith Polgar vs Dominguez is big match for round 4. Although many sympathy goes to Judith the fact tells that Dominguez dominated Polgar for 3-0, but games are from blitz.

Vugar Gashimov, having been regular top ten elo man for years is also relaxing today waiting for:
Vugar Gashimov vs Parligras / Nielsen
Only one game by both. Nielsen is the player seems to be playing on form in this tournament. Can be dangerous for Gashimov, having losing his Azeri comrade each round.

Ivanchuk / Sutovsky vs Bu Xiangzhi
Last China man survived the shoot of Indian cowboy last night, he is now drinking (and smoking with Wang) waiting for his next challenge. Ivanchuk! Bu is experiences Chinese player, having touring Europe in the last decade, he got many encounter with Ivanchuck, but the favour still on Ivanchuck with 4-2, 2 draws.

For heavy clash in round three yesterday, Grischuck get the "bonus" as Morozevich is not in a mood to go berserk and offer short 12 movers draw. Now Grischuck has upgrade his name as big favorite for World Cup contender, he will playing :
Alexander Grischuck vs Vitiugov / Potkin
Grischuck favorite with 2-0 score in database.

As for another big story of round 3, repeated from other website:
Story of the round was the Moiseenko vs Navara board. After playing sharp opening with Queen Indian 3..b6 and 4.g3, on move 35, Navara accidentally, out of consciousness, touch the King first but in his mind it is a Bishop he need to move. It was indeed the Bishop and King stand each other closely. Navara account :  " On the 35th move I accidentally touched both pieces " the king and the bishop. I wanted to move my bishop on d6, but clipped the king also, however, Moiseenko insists that I have first touched the king, but I am not sure about that. Any move with the king would lead to the loss of the piece, however, Moiseenko did not insist that I make my move namely with it. I did not want to be referred as to the unethical chess player who managed to win in an unfair way,that is why at the end, having achieved the winning position, I offered a draw.


Alexander Moiseenko: " Navara on the 35th move first touched the king. I told him: the king moves. However, I realized that my opponent accidentally made this mistake, it is not possible that he could so easily blunder the piece. This is the reason I did not insist on his move with the king. Let us remind you that if you are knocked out in the 3rd round you get 12800 dollars, and the qualification for the 4th one guarantees you the minimum prize of 20 000 dollars. Besides, the winner of this match will continue fighting for three tickets to the World Championship

In this tense situation perhaps we should remember Navara is ,as long as I remember, having an autism in his younger year. Maybe that added something. But overall, we should praised this as fair play by both and at least we got the extra tie break for today. The winner will face winner of Mamedyarov vs Zerebukh, which is the biggest seed gap pairing that goes to tie break today.

Updated : Navara struggling to went blitz in tie break, but finally able to give a positive story on his side. His next opponent is surprise winner Zerebukh, Zerebukh refuke Mamedyarov 1.5-0.5.
David Navara vs Yaroslav Zerebukh
Should this be rest round for Navara? Looking at the rating it is! No previous encounter  and we will wait anxiously to see how Navara going to stop this unknown 18 years old GM.

And Le Quang Liem for first time... need to go tie break against GM Lazaro Bruzon and out. UPDATED: And Le is finally out, he slayed down by Bruzon 0.5-1.5 and the pairing is :
Lazaro Bruzon vs Ruslan Ponomariov
Ponomariov packed home his country mate Efimenko and now playing the Cuban, Lazaro Bruzon. Their database is an equal, but Ponomariov believe to be very luck and strong in KO events.

And then for a showdown :
Gata Kamsky vs Peter Svidler
Both are old enough to be played maybe more than dozens of serious games over the last twenty years. Unfortunately both must meet here, as they are both respected "elders" among the "teenage" chessplayers over here. There is enough statistic to be both are equal here.

The only confirmed pairing for round 4 after the "normal" round:

Teimour Radjabov vs Dmitry Jakovenko
It's a close favour score for Jakovenko (0-1) according to chessgames database. Jakovenko is a strong side to prevent all three Azeri gone to fourth round, as Mamedyarov (on tie break) will need to face Navara/Moiseenko and Gashimov is unlikely to be halt by his respective opponent.

2011 World Cup Le Quang Liem advanced 3rd round

After eliminating GM Megaranto Susanto on round one and GM Boris Grachev on round two, GM Le Quang Liem secured third round spot. He will face either GM Lazaro Bruzon or GM Vallejo Pons, both must play extra tie break round as they shared point in their two encounters.

His fellow countryman, GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son also scored very good result, halting super GM Peter Svidler into two draws and now proceed to tie break. Nguyen halting Peter with a fast 21 moves Tarrasch's French Defence and 30 moves Neo Gruenfeld, should be Peter specialist! Previously, Nguyen had eliminated China hot player Li Chao.

Another SE Asianer, GM Wesley So struggling againts super GM Sergey Karjakin and today will playing extra tie break session. Both game of them finished in a draw, in move 31 on French Defence and move 26 on Nimzo Indian. It'll be great to see another breakthrough from Wesley So as in previous World Cup, where he eliminated Ivanchuk and Kamsky. But for a note, GM Sergey Karjakin is a serious contender for this World Cup session where he seeded as no.1. Winner of Wesley So vs Karjakin will face GM Judith Polgar.

From China, it's surprising to see how many of Panda men falling from rounds. The only surviving are GM Bu Xiangzhi vs GM Maxime V Lagrave, and GM Ni Hua vs GM Ruslan Ponomariov, both going to tie break. GM Ruslan Ponomariov is experienced World Cup KO players, if not specialist.

GM Alexander Morozevich score full 2-0 against GM Alexander Fier, same score for Shirov but he is the recipient of zero side where the full score going to GM Vladimir Potkin.

Confirmed 2011 World Cup Round 3 pairings commentary:

Sergey Karjakin vs Judith Polgar (UPDATED)
When Judith storming the chess world around late 1990, Karjakin perhaps only a baby in pants. But yet the database in link above shown Karjakin did play, lost, win and draw with Polgar right from 2002. This pairing should be interesting and pity, since Karjakin as top seed is favorite here and Polgar, everybody want to see how far the strongest female chessplayer can go now.

Leinier Domínguez  vs Igor Lysyj (UPDATED)
No database of previous encounter. Dominguez was top 2700 flying around Europe years ago and Lysys , for now , still less known.

Gata Kamsky vs Ian Nepomniachtchi (UPDATED)
Kamksy is sturdy and experience world champion challenger. One world cup title proves he is among level of Kramnik or Topalov, when he is in form! This is equal match.

Peter Svidler vs Fabiano Caruana (UPDATED)Same here  Svidler must play another "junior" after the troublesome Nguyen Ngoc T.S. Quite successful this year, winning the one good title, Svidler is the 90s generation that haven't got memorable chess no.1 achievement. Could Caruana ruined another runs for Svidler in yet another World Cup?


Vugar Gashimov vs Evgeny Tomashevsky
Gashimov move are considered "easy" with two very low opponents around, while Tomashevsky must eliminated a fair "stronger" GMs. Interesting is, although both are active players in same territory, looks like this will be their first encounter.

Vassily Ivanchuk vs Emil Sutovsky
On the other hand, Ivanchuk and Sutovsky are regular play mate, but from Chessgames database, Ivanchuk outplayed Sutovsky in breaking 6-0. Strongly advise Ivanchuk to play another round advance. Both are 90s generation GMs that play actively till today. Experience and as usuall guarantee exciting chess from Ivanchuk.

Dmitry Jakovenko vs Baadur Jobava
Same thing goes to Jakovenko vs Baadur, Jakovenko on 3-0 wins to his opponents.

Nikita Vitiugov vs Vladimir Potkin
And... Vitiugov on 4-0 victories point over Potkin. Both are young and 2010 generations of Russian GMs. They should know each other well. Potkin is on high for his passionate games against Shirov and a 2-0 spiritful moment.