Aronian, Leko, Grischuk Win in Candidates Matches Rd 2 Game 1

Wednesday, 06 June 2007 00:00

Top seed Levon Aronian of Armnia beat Alexei Shirov of Spain who gave an exchange sacrifice, Alexander Grischuk of Russia won a brilliant game over Sergei Rublevsky and Peter Leko of Hungary got the full point after a desperation sacrifice by Evgeny Bareev of Russia in the first game of round two of the Candidates Matches. Gata Kamsky of the USA and Boris Gelfand of Israel signalled their draw by repetition on the 23rd move. Watch games live at the official site. Read photo report. Top seed Levon Aronian of Armnia beat Alexei Shirov of Spain who gave an exchange sacrifice, Alexander Grischuk of Russia won a brilliant game over compatriot Sergei Rublevsky and Peter Leko of Hungary got the full point after a desperation sacrifice by Evgeny Bareev of Russia in the first game of round two of the Candidates Matches. Gata Kamsky of the USA and Boris Gelfand of Israel signaled their draw by repetition on the 23rd move. Watch games live at the official site.

Photos by Casto Abundo. Charts from Chessbase.

Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	TB	Tot.	Perf.
Levon Aronian	2759	1							1.0
Alexei Shirov	2699	0							0-0

Peter Leko	2738	1							1.0
Evgeny Bareev	2635	0							0-0

Alexander Grischuk	2717	1							1.0
Sergei Rublevsky	2680	0							0-0

Gata Kamsky	2705	½							0.5
Boris Gelfand	2733	½							0.5

The eight qualifiers at the closing ceremony of Round 1.

And then there were four boards left.

Two screens on both the left and right sides of the stage feature all four games.

Gelfand and Bareev chatting before the game.