World Chess Cup R4 tiebreaks: Both Cubans knocked out, Judit, Ruslan, Ivanchuk, Gashimov through to R5

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Hi everyone,

It's going to be two Russians, two Azeris, two Ukrainians, one Hungarian and one Czech in the last eight at the World Cup of Chess 2011 currently on in Khanty Mansiysk. In the very exciting tiebreaks on Thursday we had the following results:


1.Judit Polgar - Leinier Perez Dominguez 4.5-3.5
2.Ruslan Ponomariov - Lazaro Bruzon Batista  4.5-3.5
3.Peter Svidler - Gata Kamsky 2-0
4.Vugar Gashimov - Peter Heine Nielsen 4-2
5.Vassily Ivanchuk - Bu Xiangzhi 3-1
6.Teimour Radjabov - Dmitry Jakovenko 1.5-1
7.David Navara - Zherebukh 2-0
8.Alexander Grischuk - Vladimir Potkin 2.5-1.5


Here are the links to final high-tension tiebreak games to finish.

• Dominguez P, Leinier (CUB)0−1 Polgar, J (HUN) View
• Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR)1−0 Bruzon L (CUB) View

You can access the official website at this link for high resolution videos and press conference reports. We resume Round 5 on Friday. Stay tuned.

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