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World Chess Cup: A Victory and a
Draw for Cuban Players in Fourth Round
HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 6 (acn) Cuban
Grand Masters (GM) Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon began the
fourth round of the World Chess Cup, under way in the Russian city
of Khanty-Mansiysk, with a victory and a draw, respectively, in the
first of their two classical matches against Hungarian GM Judit
Polgar and Ukrainian GM Ruslan Ponomariov.
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Playing with the black pieces, Dominguez, the best Latin
American player with an ELO rating of 2,719 points, beat Polgar
(2,699) after 46 moves of a Sicilian Defense.
Meanwhile, playing with the white pieces, Bruzon (2,673) managed
to hold Ponomariov (2,764), a former world champion of the
International Chess Federation (FIDE), to a draw in 32 moves of
a Spanish Opening.
The Cuban players will face the same opponents on Wednesday and
Dominguez only needs a draw to advance to the quarterfinal round
of the tournament or Round of 8. Bruzon, on the other hand,
needs a win to advance or another draw to force the tie-break
rapid games on Thursday.
In other results on Tuesday, Ukrainian GM Vassily Ivanchuk
(2,768) tied with Chinese GM Xiangzhi Bu (2,675), Azerbaijan’s
GM Vugar Gashimov (2,760) downed Danish GM Peter Heine Nielsen
(2,681), and Russian GM Vladimir Potkin (2,682) defeated his
compatriot GM Alexander Grischuk (2,746).
Finally, Azerbaijan’s GM Teimor Radjabov beat Russian GM Dmitry
Jakovenko (2,736), Russian GM Peter Svidler (2,739) defeated
American GM Gata Kamsky
(2,741), and Czech GM David Navara (2,722) beat Ukrainian GM
Yaroslav
Zherebukh (2,590).
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