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Boris Gelfand took the lead thanks to his experience. He kep on manouevering and posing Wang hao problems until the Chinese number one made a fatal mistake.
Macauley finally grabbed Vladimir for an interview in Covent Garden. Vasily seemed to have already forgotten the game and was thinking of pruchasing a multi sided cube puzzle!
Alexander Grischuk won his first game and he describes in details where Mamedyarov went wrong
Peter leko and Michael Adams played a solid game and neither side really had much.
Dominguez spent 10 miniutes in reply to 1.e4 ! Despite opening preparation it appeared that Rustam was better prepared and more knowledgeable of the intricacies of the variation. In post mortem he was sure he missed a win.
Veselin Topalov had higher expectations in the game but after some post mortem discussions he was not so sure anymore.
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