Two Azerbaijani chess players lose in FIDE Candidates Matches quarterfinals
Tue 10 May 2011 04:42 GMT | -1:42 Local Time
The winners were defined in the confrontation of Teymur Rajabov of Azerbaijan and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, Levon Aronyan of Armenia and Alexander Grishuk of Russia. Following the four matches with the standard control of time played previously, the matched saw a draw 2-2.
In the confrontation between Rajabov and Kramnik, the four quick matches with 25-minute control ended in a draw. Under regulations, blitz of five mini-matches of two five minute parts was envisioned. Each of these matches might be the last.
In the first match Rajabov won with white pieces but the clock broke when he was playing with black. After the case was clarified, the grandmasters against sat at the board and Kramnik won.
The story with the clock had a negative impact on Rajabov. He started the second minimatch with the loss with black pieces. He had to win with white pieces but failed-Kramnik was stronger again. In the semifinal the Russian chess player will play Grishuk who managed to beat Aronyan in quick chess 2.5-1.5.
Shahriyar Mammadyarov lost to Israel’s Boris Gelfand 1.5-2.5 by results of the main matches.
Elmir Aliyev
News.Az
This is a joke. You can’t decided a candidates match by blitz.
If I got the things right, and I am not sure of what really happened there..The clock scandal is outrageous.. The outcome of the match is not just. What is this? We cannot trust the machinery we use? Rajabov had a drawn Bishop of the oppozite color, and than when they had few seconds on the clocks, they found out that the clock was broken!! Considering the stakes of this match, the correct thing to do was to stop the games after such an incident and take a break for at least a day. Think what Bobby Fischer would have done in the place of Radjabov? This kind of incident has a strong psychological effect that should not influence the outcome of such an important match. I sympathize with Radjabov here. Not something FIDE should be proud of.
Another utter absurdity that FIDE can take direct blame for. How are we ever going to get rid of this disastrous FIDE leadership?