ALL THE SAME AND GRISCHUK
It is strange but the decisive stage of this World Cup 2011 reminds semifinals of the FIDE World Championship 2001—2002.
At that time the composition of semifinalists was as follows: Peter Svidler, Vassily Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov and Viswanathan Anand. It has been 10 years since then and the composition changed only in one name — Vishi Anand is replaced by Alexander Grischuk. In the World Championship 2001—2002 the spectators witnessed the Ukrainian final match and the winner was Ponomariov. We are only to guess whether we will face another «déjà vu»?
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
True.
In 2002 the world championship was won by then Ponomariov.
That was the biggest opportunity for Ivanchuk.
However Ivanchuk was still on Earth. Over time the “Chucky Planet” has become a devourer of chess players.
🙂
Best regards
Stef