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Chess notes

By Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff
December 28, 2009

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The month of December has produced considerable drama and new champions for chess archives. First, the 128-player World Cup field was, after knockout play, finally reduced to Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine and Boris Gelfand of Israel (formerly of Belarus), both of whom had survived six rounds. The subsequent struggle between Gelfand and Ponomariov was a real nail-biter. They drew their ... (Full article: 597 words)

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