Sasikiran Enters Round Four

Sasikiran in Round Four

By Arvind Aaron


After a close match, Krishnan Sasikiran of ONGC, Chennai won the round three match by 4-2 agaiinst B.Maceija of Poland at Khanty-Mansiysk in Russia on Sunday. In the fourth round, Sasikiran faces former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine.

In the biggest upset of the event so far, top seed Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine was knocked out by Nisipeanu of Romania in the tiebreak by 3.5-2.5. The FIDE World Cup is a 128-player knock out tournament that will conclude on December 18.

 

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Published on 03rd December, 2007

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