Quarterfinal results

The round 5 quarterfinal matches consist of two games. In the case of a 1-1 score there will be fast chess tiebreak games. See the WCC index for the regulations.

The players in the left column have the white pieces for game two.

GM Einar Gausel annotates Bareev vs. Shirov from round 5.1 GM Einar Gausel annotates Shirov vs. Bareev from round 5.2 GM Einar Gausel annotates Anand vs. Khalifman from round 5.5
GM Jonathan Tisdall reports: Round 5.1 Round 5.2 Round 5.3 Round 4.1 Round 4.2 Round 4.3 Round 3.1 Round 3.2 Round 3.3 Round 2.1 Round 2.2 Round 2.3 Round 1.1 Round 1.2 Round 1.3	Examine the decisive moments from round 5.3 Examine the decisive moments from round 5.2 Examine the decisive moments from round 5.1

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WCC Round 5     9/10 Dec (TB 11 Dec) Khalifman, Alexander RUS 2667 Round 1: bye Round 2: beat Christopher Lutz, Germany ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 ½-½ Round 3: beat Peter Leko, Hungary ½-½ ½-½, ½-½ ½-½, ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 Round 4: beat Rafael Leitao, Brazil ½-½ 1-0 ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 ½-½ Anand, Viswanathan IND 2762 Round 1: bye Round 2: beat Viktor Bologan, Moldovia ½-½ 1-0 Round 3: beat Smbat Lputian, Armenia ½-½ 1-0 Round 4: beat Bartlomiej Macieja, Poland ˝-˝ 1-0 Topalov, Veselin BUL 2707 Round 1: bye Round 2: beat Andrei Kharlov, Russia ½-½ 1-0 Round 3: beat Kiril Georgiev, Bulgaria 1-0 ½-½ Round 4: beat Alexey Dreev, Russia 0-1 1-0, 1-0 0-1, 1-0 1-0 0-1 ½-½ Adams, Michael ENG 2755 Round 1: bye Round 2: beat Thien Hai Dao, Vietnam ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 1-0 Round 3: beat Alex Yermolinsky, USA ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 1-0 Round 4: beat Peter Svidler, Russia ½-½ ½-½, ½-½ 1-0 Tkachiev, Vladislav FRA 2657 Round 1: bye Round 2: beat Alexandre Lesiege, Canada 1-0 ½-½ Round 3: beat Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Uzbekistan ½-½ ½-½, ½-½ 1-0 Round 4: beat Alexander Morozevich, Russia ½-½ 1-0 ½-½ ½-½ ½-½ 0-1 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2606 Round 1: beat Darcy Lima, Brazil ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 ½-½ Round 2: beat Ilia Smirin, Israel ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 1-0 Round 3: beat Grigory Serper, USA 1-0 ½-½ Round 4: beat Jaan Ehlvest, Estonia ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 ½-½ Shirov, Alexei ESP 2746 Round 1: bye Round 2: beat Alex Onischuk, Ukraine ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 ½-½ Round 3: beat Michael Gurevich, Belgium ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 0-1, 1-0 ½-½ Round 4: beat Boris Gelfand, Israel ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 ½-½ 0-1 1-0 1-0 ½-½ Bareev, Evgeny RUS 2702 Round 1: bye Round 2: beat Rafael Vaganian, Armenia 1-0 0-1, ½-½ ½-½, 1-0 1-0 Round 3: beat Alexej Alexandrov, Belarus 1-0 1-0 Round 4: beat Boris Gulko, USA ½-½ ½-½, ½-½ 1-0

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