21 September 2015

Peter Svidler Advances to the World Cup Quarterfinals

He defeated Veselin Topalov in two classical games.

The second classical games of the World Cup's Round 4 were played on September 21 in Baku. 

Maxim Vachier-Lagrave won as Black against Wesley So and won the match 1.5-0.5. 

Wei Yi defeated Ding Liren and equalized the score. The fate of the match will be decided on tie-break tomorrow. 

Games Topalov-Svidler, Caruana-Mamedyarov, Adams-Nakamura, Karjakin-Andreikin, Wojtaszek-Giri, and Eljanov-Jakovenko were drawn. Therefore, Peter Svidler, Hikaru Nakamura, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov advanced to the Quarterfinals. 

The tie-break on September 22 features the following matches:

Karjakin-Andreikin, Giri-Wojtaszek, Jakovenko-Eljanov, Wei Yi-Ding Liren.