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BASTIA, NOV. 4. Continuing with his blistering form, Viswanathan Anand destroyed Etienne Bacrot 2-0 on way to the final of the Corsica Master rapid chess tournament here on Wednesday. Anand will play Sergie Rublevsky, who defeated Alexander Motylev 1.5-0.5, in the final. The Indian Grandmaster, looking for his fifth straight title here, outplayed Bacrot from the black side of Ruy Lopez in 43 moves in their first game. Anand cleaned up four of Bacrot's pawns while rolling his queenside pawns to reach a winning position in the endgame involving queen and a rook each. In the second game, Anand was far more ruthless. In Sicilian Defence, Anand went on to capture Bacrot's queen on the 19th turn and closed the match 11 moves later. In the other semifinal, Rublevsky drew the first game with white pieces in 53 moves but returned to decisively win the second in 57. Anand had made his way to the semifinals at the expense of Nenad Sulava and Mikhail Gurevich. Rublevsky stunned last year's finalist Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov 2-0 in the quarterfinals, while Motylev surprised former World championship runner-up Alexei Shirov 2.5-1.5, following two semi-rapid tiebreak games.
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