The World Cup finalists unexplicably agreed to a draw after only 20 moves. I hope game 3 will be more exciting.

Gelfand (2758) – Ponomariov (2739) [E10]
World Cup 2009 (2), 11.12.2009

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 c6 7.Bf4 Nbd7 8.Qc2 0–0 9.0–0 b6 10.Rd1 Bb7 11.Nc3 Nh5 12.Bc1 f5 13.b3 Rc8 14.Bb2 Bd6 15.e3 Qe7 16.Ne2 Nhf6 17.Nf4 Ne4 18.Qe2 Ndf6 19.Ne5 Rfd8 20.Rac1 c5 ½–½

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