FIDE Candidates: Semifinals resumes tomorrow

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

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds 10th Asian Individual 2011

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Harikrishna P	IND	2666	6.5	0.0	2615	44.5
2	GM	Yu Yangyi	CHN	2646	6.5	0.0	2607	45.5
3	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2635	6.5	0.0	2547	42.5
4	GM	Jumabayev Rinat	KAZ	2558	6.0	0.0	2640	43.0
5	GM	Bu Xiangzhi	CHN	2662	6.0	0.0	2636	48.5
6	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2676	6.0	0.0	2613	46.0
7		Lu Shanglei	CHN	2473	6.0	0.0	2601	40.0
8	GM	Moradiabadi Elshan	IRI	2536	6.0	0.0	2588	40.5
9	GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2622	5.5	0.0	2616	43.0
10	GM	Zhao Jun	CHN	2574	5.5	0.0	2565	40.0
11	GM	Zhou Weiqi	CHN	2610	5.5	0.0	2556	39.5
12	GM	So Wesley	PHI	2667	5.5	0.0	2553	38.5
13	IM	Barbosa Oliver	PHI	2506	5.0	0.0	2606	41.0
14	GM	Ismagambetov Anuar	KAZ	2500	5.0	0.0	2584	38.5
15	GM	Wen Yang	CHN	2545	5.0	0.0	2582	41.5
16	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	IND	2643	5.0	0.0	2562	42.0
17	GM	Kunte Abhijit	IND	2526	5.0	0.0	2548	39.0
18	GM	Sethuraman S P	IND	2527	5.0	0.0	2543	35.0
19	GM	Kasimdzhanov Rustam	UZB	2685	5.0	0.0	2534	40.0
20	GM	Gomez John Paul	PHI	2538	5.0	0.0	2471	34.5
21	GM	Cao Sang	VIE	2547	5.0	0.0	2439	34.0
22	GM	Laylo Darwin	PHI	2516	4.5	0.0	2586	38.0
23	GM	Adhiban B	IND	2543	4.5	0.0	2582	41.5
24		Wang Chen	CHN	2436	4.5	0.0	2571	41.5
25	IM	Lou Yiping	CHN	2435	4.5	0.0	2553	39.0
26	GM	Megaranto Susanto	INA	2529	4.5	0.0	2534	39.5
27	IM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2495	4.5	0.0	2525	33.5
28	FM	Ahmadinia E	IRI	2429	4.5	0.0	2515	34.5
29	GM	Paragua Mark	PHI	2542	4.5	0.0	2497	34.5
30	GM	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	IRI	2606	4.5	0.0	2484	38.5
31	GM	Gopal G N	IND	2592	4.5	0.0	2480	36.5
32	IM	Vaibhav Suri	IND	2430	4.5	0.0	2473	32.5
33	GM	Hou Yifan	CHN	2612	4.5	0.0	2420	30.5
34	IM	Alavi Sayed Javad	IRI	2428	4.0	0.0	2579	37.5
35	IM	Yang Kaiqi	CHN	2409	4.0	0.0	2550	37.5
36	IM	Shyam Sundar M	IND	2457	4.0	0.0	2526	33.5
37	IM	Gao Rui	CHN	2419	4.0	0.0	2521	34.5
38		Noroozi Omid	IRI	2340	4.0	0.0	2507	38.0
39	IM	Darini Pouria	IRI	2471	4.0	0.0	2493	34.5
40	FM	Pourramezanali Amirreza	IRI	2330	3.5	0.0	2562	39.5
41		Yu Ruiyuan	CHN	2431	3.5	0.0	2538	36.5
42	FM	Sadeh Shahin	IRI	2343	3.5	0.0	2525	33.5
43	GM	Dao Thien Hai	VIE	2512	3.0	0.0	2569	39.5
44	IM	Debashis Das	IND	2392	3.0	0.0	2516	37.0
45	GM	Annageldyev Orazly	TKM	2418	3.0	0.0	2496	34.0
46	FM	Bakr Jwan	SYR	2368	3.0	0.0	2475	34.5
47		Arabi Saeid	IRI	2141	3.0	0.0	2425	30.5
48		Khademi Mohammad Miran	IRI	2308	2.5	0.0	2495	32.0
49	FM	Al-Ali Hussein Ali Hussein	IRQ	2394	2.5	0.0	2487	34.0
50		Yang Ching Wei Austin	TPE	1717	0.0	0.0	2462	31.5