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Helped By Svidler’s Blunders Karjakin Wins with Blacks to Extend 2015 Baku World Cup - Kridangan Sports
The 2015 World Chess Cup is not over yet. Despite Peter Svidler playing with White pieces and requiring just a draw, the dramatic third game has made Sergey Karjakin live another day. It was widely expected that the third game on Saturday would be the last at Baku’s Fairmont Hotel but Karjakin struck back to win with Black pieces and reduced the overall score to 1-2. The decisive results in all three games played so far; has made the 2015 Baku World Cup as the most exciting in history. Karjakin opted for the Sicilian opening and the third game reached its most complicated stage. Unexpectedly, Svidler made a mistake in the 28th move and followed that with a blunder in the 29th. Suddenly his position became untenable and he resigned on move no.30.