The Press Trust of India
December 6, 2007 Thursday

Jakovenko upsets Aronian in World Chess

by Khanty Mansiysk (Russia) Dec 6
>From our Chess Correspondent

Levon Aronian of Armenia suffered a shocking ouster from the World
Chess Cup losing to Russian Dmitry Jakovenko in the tie-breaker of
the fourth round here.

Gata Kamsky of United States caused a flutter defeating Russian Peter
Svidler in the other tie-breaker while Evgeny Alekseev was the other
Russian to win impressively against compatriot Evgeny Bareev.

Earlier, Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine, Alexei Shirov of Spain, Magnus
Carlsen of Norway, Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine and Ivan Cheparinov
of Bulgaria won in normal games to book their spot in the
quarterfinals.

The line-up in the last eight has fast improving Alekseev facing
Karjakin while Jakovenko has a tough task against Alexei Shirov.

Kamsky takes on Ponomariov and Carlsen meets Cheparinov.

The World Cup, that started with 128 players, has a winner’s purse of
USD 120,000. The last Indian to get eliminated was Krishnan Sasikiran
who lost to Ponomariov in the first game of the two-game mini-match
and drew the second.

Jakovenko came up with an opening novelty against Aronian in the
first rapid game and kept things under control for the major part
after accepting a pawn sacrifice early in the Ruy Lopez opening.

Aronian felt the heat in the middle game when he was troubled by
dominating white knights in the centre and eventually lost after 66
moves.

In the return game Aronian fought in vain for 114 moves but Jakovenko
never slipped and finally got the draw he was looking for.

Kamsky outplayed Svidler from a level position arising out of another
Ruy Lopez in the second game after the first was drawn.

According to experts, Svidler tried hard after Kamsky equalised and
had to pay a heavy price.

In the other match of the day, Alekseev won both games in rapid
against Bareev and sailed through to the quarters.

Complete results round 4: Sergey Karjakin (Ukr) beat Liviu-Dieter
Nisipeanu (Rou) 1.5-0.5; Evgeny Alekseev (Rus) beat Evgeny Bareev
(Rus) 3-1; Levon Aronian (Arm) lost to Dmitry Jakovenko (Rus)
1.5-2.5; Vladimir Akopian (Arm) lost to Alexei Shirov (Esp) 0.5-1.5;
Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) beat Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind) 1.5-0.5; Gata
Kamsky (Usa) beat Peter Svidler (Rus) 2.5-1.5; Magnus Carlsen (Nor)
beat Michael Adams (Eng) 1.5-0.5; Ivan Cheparinov (Bul) beat Wang Yue
(Chn) 1.5-0.5.