ACP Rapid: Jakovenko, Radjabov, Grischuk and Karjakin through
6 January 2008 21:43 PM | Last modified: 21:50
Yes, that was today’s show: Jakovenko, Radjabov, Grischuk and Karjakin qualified for the semi-finals of the 2nd ACP Rapid Cup. The young guard indeed, because for ‘oldies’ Ivanchuk, Gelfand and Svidler it’s now over, and also for Inarkiev. The match of the day was Ivanchuk-Radjabov: first two draws in the rapids, and then Radjabov won the first blitz game. Ivanchuk then managed to equal the score with Black, to be eliminated anyway in a dramatic sudden-death game.
| Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2720 | 1.5-0.5 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2681 |
| Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2735 | 3-2 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2751 |
| Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2763 | 0.5-1.5 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2711 |
| Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 2732 | 4-2 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2737 |
The tournament website on Ivanchuk-Radjabov: “Many people believe that White’s advantage in this kind of tie-break is too big. However, Ivanchuk, who won the drawing of lots, selected Black. When he lost on time in a winning position, his opponent still had three full seconds left…”
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So he lost on time. That means Ivanchuk played better, but the time control was incomfortable for him.
or Radjabov was so smart not to think deeper on certain moves because he knew he would lose on time in that case!