Candidates Chess Matches Kazan 2011 - Gelfand and Grischuk in final, Kamsky and Kramnik knocked out

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Hello everyone,

The finalists: Boris Gelfand and Alexander Grischuk with press officer Boris Kutin in Kazan.

The Candidates Chess Matches have come down to the final stage. It's going to be Boris Gelfand versus Alexander Grischuk to decide who will take on current World Chess Champion in early 2012 for the top chess title.

The FIDE Candidates matches are being held in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, with eight strong GMs competing to qualify as Challenger for the 2012 World Champion match from May 3 to 27. Time controls in the four regular games are 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61. In case of a tie there will be four rapid chess games, and if the tie is still not broken then up to five two-game blitz matches 5'+3". Finally there may be a sudden-death final decider. The prize fund of the candidates is 500,000 Euros.

After all the four games in the semi-finals ended in draws both for the Kamsky-Gelfand and Kramnik-Grischuk pairs, the quartet went into the tiebreak. Here is the final tally.

Scoreboard

Nat.

Rtg

G1

G2

G3

G4

R1

R2

R3

R4

Blitz

Tot.

Vladimir Kramnik

RUS

2785

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

0.5

4.5

Alexander Grischuk

RUS

2747

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

1.5

5.5

Scoreboard

Nat.

Rtg

G1

G2

G3

G4

R1

R2

R3

R4

Blitz

Tot.

Boris Gelfand

ISR

2733

½

½

½

½

½

½

0

1

2.0

6.0

Gata Kamsky

USA

2732

½

½

½

½

½

½

1

0

0.0

4.0

You can access the official website here. Meanwhile, the games from the tiebreak can be viewed through our pop-down menu game player below. Enjoy. 

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