Candidates’ tournament. Quaterfinals. 3rd games. Gelfand defeats Mamedyarov with black and other results

Candidates’ tournament

Kazan, Russia

Quaterfinals

Third games

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2772) – Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2733) – 0:1

Score after two games: 1:2

Levon Aronyan (Armenia, 2808) – Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2747) – 0.5:0.5

Score after two games: 1.5:1.5

Teimour Radzhabov (Azerbaijan, 2744) – Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2785) – 0.5:0.5

Score after two games: 1.5:1.5

Gata Kamsky (USA, 2732) – Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2775) – 0.5:0.5

Score after two games: 2:1

In quarterfinals the opponents will play 4 games with time control of 2 hours for 40 moves, then 1 hour for 20 moves, and 15 minutes until the end of the game with 30 seconds added for each move starting with 61th move. In case of a draw a tie-break should be played (on May 9).

Prize money – €420.000. Magnus Carlsen from Norway has withdrawn from the candidates’ tournament before its start claiming the system to be unfair.