Other guests of the press centre are Russian speaking commentators Sergey Shipov and Valery Ioshan.

The third game of the match for the 3rd place between the Ukrainian GMs Vassily Ivanchuk and Ruslan Ponomariov was drawn. The way Vassily managed to save the position with one pawn down was shared with us by the opponents at the press-conference.

The press-officer of the World Cup, the FIDE President Advisor Nikita Kim shared his impressions on his present visit to the capital of Ugra and told us about the 4th in a row in Khanty-Mansiysk knock-out tournament.

What do we actually know about the mysterious chess player from Lvov? The whole world calls him in a very simple and artistic way — a genius.

The third game of the final match between the Russian Grandmasters Alexander Grischuk and Peter Svidler finished in a draw. Now to continue playing in the World Cup Grischuk will have to win with Black. So far — Grandmasters narrate about their third game.

The third games of the last matches of the Chess World Cup were played on Sunday, September 18 in Khanty-Mansiysk. The game between Russian grandmasters competing for the main prize ended first, just like yesterday.

The World Cup press centre has made a present to the visitors of the official site of the tournament. First time during the tournament the opportunity to see those whose voices we hear during online broadcast of the games.

The finish of the World Cup is impetuously coming. After the second day of the finals the price for a mistake increased almost as prices during the world crisis. From now on every game in both matches can become the last one …