From 3 to 27 May 2011 the FIDE Candidates matches are being held in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, with eight strong GMs competing to qualify as Challenger for the 2012 World Champion match. Time controls in the four regular games are 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61. In case of a tie there will be four rapid chess games, and if the tie is still not broken then up to five two-game blitz matches 5'+3". Finally there may be a sudden-death final decider. The prize fund of the candidates is 500,000 Euros.
WR Player Rating Nat. Born 4 Vladimir Kramnik 2785 RUS 1975 12 Alexander Grischuk 2747 RUS 1983 16 Boris Gelfand 2733 ISR 1968 18 Gata Kamsky 2732 USA 1974
And here are the results and the pairings for the next stage:
| Quarterfinals (best of 4) | Semifinals (best of 4) | Final (best of 6) | |||||||||||
| 1 |  Veselin Topalov | 1.5 | |||||||||||
| 8 |  Gata Kamsky | 2.5 | |||||||||||
| Gata Kamsky | |||||||||||||
 Boris Gelfand | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Boris Gelfand | 2.5 | |||||||||||
| 5 |  Shak Mamedyarov | 1.5 | |||||||||||
| 3 |  Levon Aronian | 3.5 | |||||||||||
| 6 |  Alexander Grischuk | 4.5 | |||||||||||
| Alexander Grischuk | |||||||||||||
| Vladimir Kramnik | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Vladimir Kramnik | 7.0 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Teimour Radjabov | 5.0 | |||||||||||
This is the schedule of the next rounds:
Day Date Game Thursday May 12 Round 2 Game 1 Friday May 13 Round 2 Game 2 Saturday May 14 Round 2 Game 3 Sunday May 15 Round 2 Game 4 Monday May 16 Tiebreaks Tuesday May 17 Free day Wednesday May 18 Free day Thursday May 19 Round 3 Game 1 Friday May 20 Round 3 Game 2 Saturday May 21 Round 3 Game 3 Sunday May 22 Free day Monday May 23 Round 3 Game 4 Tuesday May 24 Round 3 Game 5 Wednesday May 25 Round 3 Game 6 Thursday May 26 Tiebreaks, closing Friday May 27 Departure
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