[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: World Cup, Round 6 Tiebreaks: Kamsky advances!

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
World Cup, Round 6 Tiebreaks: Kamsky advances!
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1197309042.shtml


   The chess world has grown stronger since 1996, when Gata Kamsky
   battled Anatoly Karpov for the FIDE half of the world championship,
   but Kamsky is approaching that same rarified air once again. With his
   win over Magnus Carlsen in the semi-finals of the World Cup, Kamsky is
   one match away from a showdown with Veselin Topalov, the winner in
   turn to play the winner of the world championship match between
   champion Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik.
   His opponent in the final match of the World Cup remains undetermined.
   Sergey Karjakin pressed for a while on the White side of a Zaitsev Ruy
   Lopez, given an unusually quiet interpretation by Alexei Shirov, but
   was unable to make meaningful progress. So they're off to tiebreaks,
   and remarkably, this is the first tiebreaker for Shirov in the entire
   event!
   Both the Karjakin-Shirov draw and Kamsky's win over Carlsen, an easy
   win in a sideline of the Petroff, can be found [1]here, with my
   comments.

References

   1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/worldcup2007_rd6_2.htm