World Chess Cup R2 tiebreaks: Adams, Pons, Maxime eliminated among others

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Hi everyone,

We have the updated chess results from the World Cup of Chess 2011 currently on in Ugra region of Khanty Mansiysk. The tiebreaks were held on Friday and here are the results. You can see all the tiebreak games at the official website. (In bold are the players who go through to Round 3).

• Karjakin, Sergey (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5
• So, Wesley (PHI) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5 

• Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5 
• Fridman, Daniel (GER) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5 

• Feller, Sebastien (FRA) ½ ½ 0 0 1 
• Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) ½ ½ 1 1 3 

• Vallejo Pons, Francisco (ESP) 0 1 ½ 0 1.5 
• Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB) 1 0 ½ 1 2.5 

• Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5 
• Bu, Xiangzhi (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5 

• Ivanov, Alexander (USA) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5 
• Lysyj, Igor (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5 

• Moiseenko, Alexander (UKR) ½ ½ 1 1 3 
• Inarkiev, Ernesto (RUS) ½ ½ 0 0 1 

• Adams, Michael (ENG) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5 
• Nielsen, Peter Heine (DEN) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5 

• Nepomniachtchi, Ian (RUS) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5 
• Riazantsev, Alexander (RUS) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5 

• Filippov, Anton (UZB) 1 0 0 0 1 
• Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) 0 1 1 1 3 

• Zherebukh, Yaroslav (UKR) 1 0 1 1 3 
• Felgaer, Ruben (ARG) 0 1 0 0 1 

• Svidler, Peter (RUS) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 4 
• Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son (VIE) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 2 

• Ni, Hua (CHN) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 2.5 
• Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 3.5 

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