World Chess Cup: the fifth round

Three matches of the fifth round ended in the main time: Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2714), Gata Kamsky (USA, 2714), Alexei Shirov (Spain, 2739) went to semifinal. A single match ended on the tiebreak – Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine, 2694) outplayed Evgeny Alekseev (Russia, 2716). Thus, the pairings of the semifinal are 

• Shirov-Karjakin
• Carlsen-Kamsky

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• 12/7/2007 - World Chess Cup - the fourth round ended
• 12/3/2007 - World Chess Cup – the third round
• 11/27/2007 - World Chess Cup – the first round ended
• 11/24/2007 - World Chess Cup