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After game 4 of the 6th round of the World Chess Championship 18 years old Ukranian grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariov has defeated Peter Svidler of Russia with the score of 2.5 - 1.5. Ruslan Ponomariov has qualified to the World Chess Championship Finals.
Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine has succeed to defeat the last year's World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand of India in the last game of round 6. With the score of 2.5 against 1.5 Vassily Ivanchuk has qualified to the World Chess Championship Finals.
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Two Ukrainian chessplayers Vasily Ivanchuk and Ruslan Ponomariov will compete in the final of the World Chess Championships in January 2002!
Thursday saw the last classical games in the men's semi-finals and the women's final.
...The young Ukrainian star Ponomariov chose a very solid system with c2-c3 to fight Svidler's Sicilian. Petr tried to find some complications, sacrificed a knight for two pawns, but Ruslan reacted very precisely, forced a lot of piece exchanges and Svidler offered a draw himself on the 18th move, because his position was a bit worse.
Vasily Ivanchuk played inspired chess and beat the FIDE World Champion with black. It is interesting to note that in the opening he adopted the same manoeuvre (with change of colours) Nf6-d7-b6 which gave success to Alexander Morozevich in his game against Michael Adams in Dortmund-2001.
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Thursday Vassily Ivanchuk ... eliminated Viswanathan Anand in an elegant endgame in the last game of the semifinals and will face Ruslan Ponomariov ... in a match for the FIDE World Championship.
Ivanchuk and Ponomariov are both from Ukraine. The final match of eight games will begin on January 17, 2002. Anand, current FIDE World Champion, was rated as having the best chances to win from the beginning of the championship.
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FIDE World Chess Championships.Semi-Finals Finals: The Ukraine will have its first World Chess Champion as Vassily Ivanchuk sensationally defeated Viswanathan Anand with black to go through to the final. He will meet Ruslan Ponomariov also of the Ukraine in the final who drew out the last game against Svidler to go through.
...Eugeny Atarov reports: «What a magnificent day it was... There was applause in the hall at least three times. The first time was when Ponomarev managed to resist with white against Svidler. They both went directly to a press conference. Peter Svidler didn't look too upset saying that he did not have such a bad championships. Ponomariov had to deal with many journalists and questions lasting more than an hour. Then the spectators applauded Ivanchuk after his sensational victory with black against Anand. The most frequently asked question was about... moving the finals of the championships to Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. Ivanchuk didn't have time to answer all the questions before the final sensation of the day when Kosteniuk who was black has took revenge against Zhu Chen. They will playoff for the title tomorrow.»
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A GREAT DAY FOR THE UKRAINE!