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Tuesday, Jul 06, 2004

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Adams enters final

TRIPOLI, JULY 5. Grandmaster Michael Adams of England made it to the final of the World chess championship with a 2.5-1.5 win over Grandmaster Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the semifinals here. Though Adams drew his fourth and final game of the semifinal on Sunday, the half-point was enough to assure him a berth in the summit clash where he will meet the winner of the other semifinal between top seeded GM Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan.

Topalov and Kasimdzhanov will decide their fate in tie-breaker after all their four games ended in draws.

In the fourth game, playing white, Adams was in for a surprise on the second move itself as Radjabov went for something completely unexplored. The middle game was fought on level terms though as Radjabov equalised easily with black.

The situation brought the best out of Adams and after trading of pieces at regular intervals, the Queen and minor piece endgame was never a trouble for the English. The peace was signed in 44 moves.

The other game saw Topalov, playing with white, gaining too little from the opening and gradually Kasimdzhanov neutralised whatever white had hoped for in the middle game of the Bogo Indian defence. Though the game lasted till the 45th move, the outcome was never in doubt. — PTI

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