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Ruslan Ponomariov vs Alexander Morozevich
FIDE World Championship Tournament (2001/02), Moscow RUS, rd 4, Dec-03
French Defense: Classical. Burn Variation Morozevich Line (C11)  ·  1-0

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Jan-30-05  PinkPanther: Was this a blitz/rapid game, or was it one of the ones played at normal time controls?
Jan-30-05  aw1988: FIDE KO? Probably rapid.
May-25-09  tibone: ivanchuk mentioned this game after his first round game against bacrot in nalchik.
Dec-02-18
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  plang: <PinkPanther: Was this a blitz/rapid game, or was it one of the ones played at normal time controls? >

It was classical time control.

Game 1 of their fourth round match in the World Championship tournament; Morozovich won game 2 but Ponomariov then won the quick-play tiebreak and then went on to defeat Bareev, Svidler and Ivanchuk to win the championship. 6..gxf and 7..a6 is a pet line of Morozovich. 11 c3 was a new move; 11 Nc3 had been played previously. Not easy to see where Black went wrong in this sharp, unbalanced position though after 17 d5! White seemed to have favorable chances.

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