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Chess Life Online 2007 November Shulman and Onischuk Advance
Chess Life Online 2007 November Shulman and Onischuk Advance | Shulman and Onischuk Advance |
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| By Jennifer Shahade | |
| November 26, 2007 | |
Yury Shulman facing off against Rafael Leitao in the tiebreak playoff. Photo Misha Savinov.
Yury Shulman and Alexander Onischuk advanced in today's tiebreak playoffs. Meanwhile Gregory Kaidanov and Varuzhan Akobian were eliminated. Check the official website for complete results. According to the fide website's pairing tree (which is strangely not published on the actual tournament site's website), round three pairings for the American team will be: Shulman-Shirov Onischuk-Nikolic Avrukh-Kamsky Click here to download complete pairing tree: http://www.fide.com/worldchesscup/download/pairingstree2007.xls (downloads in excel) Here are Shulman's back to back wins in the rapid playoff: 1399 1400 And Onischuk took out Andirasian in a 126 move game, then drew the second game to clinch the rapid match and advance to round 2. 1398 Meanwhile, here are two of Akobian's games from his marathon tiebreak match Varuzhan was about to be eliminated when he won the following game, propelling the match into an Armageddon playoff: 1396 Akobian got Black in the Armageddon match, so he had five minutes and draw odds while Roiz had the white pieces plus six minutes but had to win to advance. 1397 |