Gorodetsky Ilya: "Petr Svidler turned on an equal basis with Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchy almost into the main hope of the Russian chess on the World Cup"
Gorodetsky Ilya estimated speech of the Russian chess players on the World Cup at Baku. Earlier in 1/16 finals of tournament left Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchy, Petr Svidler and Yesipenko Andrey "Always so passes a World Cup: someone from favourites passes as a knife through oil, and someone meets unexpected difficulties. It is possible to compare to "Grand Slam" tournament on tennis, there too the strongest win one part of a grid and already start battling with each other, and in another there are a lot of absolutely unknown names. We are waited by the fourth round: some matches will be very dense, for example, a meeting of two young stars – Andrey...