Ivanchuk held game 4 to beat Ponomariov 2.5 – 1.5 to finish 3rd and advance to the World Championship cycle.
Final. Match for the 3rd place
Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) ½ 1 ½ ½ 2.5
Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½ 0 ½ ½ 1.5
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I’m so happy he made it.
No one deserves to be finally selected for the candidates more than he, Mr. Chess:)
Great news. I’m sure the whole world chess fraternity is happy that Ivanchuk has made it through to the next World Championship cycle.
India
Bravo Chucky!
Stef
It would be great if we could finally delete the last 6 words of
“one of the greatest players never to win a world championship.”