Chess World Cup 2007
The World Chess Cup 2007 ( officially: FIDE World Cup 2007) was held from November 24 to December 16 in Khanty- Mansiysk, Russia, held and served as a qualifying stage for the World Chess Championship 2010.
The tournament, which was held in the cup system, participated in 128 chess players who had previously qualified through national and international excretions. The American Gata Kamsky won the competition undefeated, he had only once in the tiebreak, and defeating in the final four games Alexei Shirov 2.5:1.5. By his victory, Kamsky qualified for the Candidates final against Veselin Topalov. The winner ( Topalov ) managed to gain the right to challenge world champion Viswanathan Anand.
Two 17 years old players, Sergey Karjakin and Carlsen reached the semi-finals.
The four semi-finalists were given access to the FIDE Grand Prix 2008 / 09, which was a qualifying stage for the World Cup in 2012.
Prominent non-participating players
Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov could not participate because they already enjoyed privileges in the current World Cup cycle, which nor stemmed from their participation in the World Chess Championship 2006, which ended the division of the world title. All other leading grandmasters, including World Champion Anand; were eligible to participate, Anand waived, however.
Three other players who participated recently at the World Cup 2007 tournament in Mexico - Péter Lékó, Alexander Morozevich and Gelfand - also did not participate. Lékó and Morozevich refused to participate because of the privileges for Kramnik and Topalov. The only other player from the top 30 in the world rankings Judit Polgár did not participate.
Qualification
The list of participants is made up as follows:
- The top three players in the Chess World Cup 2007 ( Levon Aronian, Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk ). The remaining five participants in this World Cup have been replaced by the average of the five best players in the FIDE World Ranking of July 2006 and January 2007.
- The World Chess Champion from 2006, Xu Yuhua.
- The Junior World Champion of 2006: Sawen Andriasjan.
- 25 players with the highest Elo ratings ( including the aforementioned five): For this turn, the average of the lists of July 2006 and January 2007 was taken.
- 89 players who had qualified through continental and zone championships. 45 players from Europe ( 16 from the European Individual Championship in 2006 and 29 from the from the year 2007)
- 19 players from America (7 of the 4th Pan-American Championships, 12 from the from the 2.1 through 2.5 Zonals )
- 19 players from Asia and Oceania (10 of the 6th Asia Championship, 9 of from the 3.1 through 3.6 Zonals )
- 6 players from Africa ( Africa Championship 2007).
Participant
Except where otherwise noted, all players wore the Grandmaster title. The number after the name is the Elo rating, which had the respective player at the start of the tournament.
Conditions
The tournament took place under similar conditions as the controversial FIDE Knockout World Championships 1998-2004: Each round consisted of two games per pairing, only in the final there were four games. If, after the regular games are still no decision have fallen, tiebreaks were provided with a shorter time limit.
The time control for the regular games were 90 minutes for the first 20 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the lot, 30 seconds were added per train. The tie-break consisted of two rapid games (25 minutes per player 10 seconds per train ); if necessary, two blitz games (5 minutes 10 seconds per train ); it should still result in a tie, so a single game on the next round would have decided, with white would have six minutes to change your mind, black 5 minutes. In a draw Black would continue.
The prize money was between $ 6,000 ( for players who were eliminated in the first round), $ 80,000 for the inferior finalist and $ 120,000 for the winner.
Results, rounds 1-4
Summary
Most favorites prevailed. Of the 32 top seeds eliminated only Pawel Eljanow ( 19 playoff position ), Konstantin Landa ( 25 ) and P. Harikrishna from ( 32 ).
Teymur Rəcəbov, third in the seedings, Loek van Wely and 24 of the seedings, retired after the regular games. In the tie-break lost Rustam Kasimjanov ( 22 ), Andrei Volokitin ( 26 ) and Vadim Zvyagintsev ( 30 ). This leaves 24 of the 32 top seeds of the seedings were represented in the Round of 32 players.
Vassily Ivanchuk, No. 1 -seeded, and Magnus Carlsen ( 10 ), Ruslan Ponomariov ( 14 ) and Wang Yue ( 15 ) had in the tie-break to get ahead.
After the two regular batches 10 of 16 duels were decided. The winners were: Alexei Shirov ( fifth playoff position ), Michael Adams ( 7 ), Yevgeny Alexeyev ( 8 ), Magnus Carlsen (10th), Gata Kamsky ( 11 ), Vladimir Akopian ( 12 ), Dmitry Yakovenko ( 13 ), Ruslan Ponomariov ( 14 ), Wang Yue ( 15 ) and Ivan Tscheparinow ( 31 ). Tscheparinow defeated the set to number 2 Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov.
The remaining six bouts were decided in the tie-break. Here, Liviu -Dieter Nisipeanu translated ( 33 ), where he switched off the top seeded Vassily Ivanchuk, K. Sasikiran ( 35 ), Evgeny Bareev ( 41 ), Levon Aronian (4)., Pyotr Svidler ( 6 ) Sergey Karjakin and ( 17 ) by.