Once again, Gelfand proves that his experience comes into play. As the top seed, he made it to the final by defeating Karjakin 2-0. Malakhov and Ponomariov will head to the rapid playoff. This will be interesting as both a very good in rapid chess.
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Semifinal. Game 2. |
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| match | match score |
White | Result | Black | |
| 1 | 2-0 | Gelfand, Boris (ISR) | 1-0 | Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) | View |
| 2 | 1-1 | Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) | ½-½ | Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) | View |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
gelfand is even better than kramnik, anand, and topalov. he should be world champion.
Gelfand has simply lived up to his top seeding so far-the final atleast is a 4 game match.
It is funny how many underestimated Gelfand when he is such an experienced match player- he even beat Kramnik in a candidates match 15 years ago- and he is just outside the top 5 in the world still.
Carlsen was the 5th player ever to reach 2800?
Well in 1991 Gelfand was the 5th player ever to reach 2700! Only Kasparov and Karpov was above him then.
Quite good longevity has Gelfand had- about 20 years since he was first a top tenner.
Gelfand impressive