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01.12.2005 | Round 2. Game 2. Photo report
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Please find the photos from the 2nd game of the 2nd round
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30.11.2005 | Round 2. Game 1. Photo report.
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Please find pictures from the 1st day of the 2nd round.
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30.11.2005 | Round 1. Tie breaks. Photo report
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Please find the photos from the 3rd day of the World Cup.
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30.11.2005 | Ernesto Inarkiev: I am ironical about the crisis in Russian chess.
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Ernesto is one of the most talented young Russian Grand Masters. His name is connected with a sequel of victory traditions of the Russian chess school. We would like to remind that he was the European Champion U-16, Russian Champion U-20.
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29.11.2005 | RATING DOESN'T MATTER!
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For so many years FIDE is holding knock-out championships, but the audience and even players themselves can’t get used to the fact that after every round a half of the participants are going home. Every time there is a tragedy, despair, defeat of hopes...
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29.11.2005 | Gata Kamsky: I have not opened any chess books for the past years.
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American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky is one of the mysterious persons in the modern chess history. Having played the World Chess Championship in 1996 he decided to quit playing. It seemed that forever- Kamsky studied medicine and then got the diploma of a lawyer. But: the first love is unforgettable and nine years since he is back to professional chess. Now he is not that prodigy who became famous not only by his moves but also his father's announcements, but he is a well-formed young man (Gata is 31 years old), having his own opinion on any issue.
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29.11.2005 | Alexander Sibriav: I am proud for today's game
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Alexander is the only FIDE Master in Khanty-Mansiysk. He got his diploma personally from the Governor of the Region and FIDE President on the day when the agreement to organize the 2005 World Chess Cup was reached.
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28.11.2005 | Round 1 Game 2 Photo Report
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Please see photos from the 2nd day of the 1st round.
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28.11.2005 | World Chess Cup 2005 Opening Ceremony
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The World Chess Federation (FIDE) and Government of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region–Yugra have reached an agreement in respect of the organization of the 2005 World Chess Cup in which leading GMs of the planet compete. 127 participants from 48 countries arrived in the capital of Yugra. Unfortunately, GM Vladimir Akopian of Armenia failed to come due to the health problems.
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28.11.2005 | Press conference of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Alexander Filipenko
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27 November 2005 at 3:00 pm local time the Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region Alexander Filipenko and FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov made the first symbolic moves in a game Ivanchuk-Sibriaev. And just half an hour later they gave a press conference to the accredited journalists who had come to the World Cup. |
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