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The 10th Corsica Masters (5.11.2006)
"Record of participation : 468 players ! " .

 


Vishy Anand - Rustam Kasimdzhanov

After qualification in Corsica Masters, sixteen players started in this rapid chess knockout tournament, with two games per round deciding who proceeded to the next stage. The favourites were of course Vishy Anand, who had won the event five times in past years (and is probably the best rapid chess player in the world today); Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who like Anand is a former FIDE world champion and capable of playing extraordinary chess; Etienne Bacrot, France's top GM and number 18 in the world.

In the following cross table you can see how the tournament developed. In the first stage there were four matches that went to tiebreaks, after that Anand went through his opponents like hot butter through a knife (as Anand himself once put it). In the other branch of the tournament Rustam Kasimdzhanov squeaked past tough opposition: Tregubov, Bologan, Bacrot. In the final Kasim won the first game with black against Vishy, and held the Indian superstar to a draw in the second to take the title.

 

 


Prizes ceremony

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Finals of the preceding editions :
2005 - Milov, Vadim 4-2 Anand, Viswanathan
2004 - Anand, Viswanathan 2-0 Rublevsky, Sergei
2003 - Anand, Viswanathan 4-2 Topalov, Veselin
2002 - Anand, Viswanathan 3-1 Karpov, Anatoly
2001 - Anand, Viswanathan 3-2 Chernin, Alexander
2000 - Anand, Viswanathan 2-0 Drazic, Sinisa
1999 - Akopian, Vladimir
1998 - Chernin, Alexander
1997 - Pavel, Tregubov

 

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