Aronain & Radjobov OUT!!

Top favorite Aronian Levon crashes out from the candidate match after loosing to Grischuk in the tie-break. Griscuk draw first blood in the rapid tie-break but tumbled in the second game. The 3rd game ended draw after 61 moves. Unfortunately, Aronian blundered in the final game and ended his hope in competing for the World Champion tittle.
Radjabov drew with Kramnik in all 4 rapid games. However, Radjabov took the lead after winning his first blitz game. He just needed a draw to destroyed Kramnik hope. The game was in Radjabov favor when the position seemed headed for a draw. Both have about 15 second when something incredible happened, the electronic clock malfunctioned. Kramnik took this advantage and studied the position carefully when the arbiters were fixing the time back in order. When the game continued, Radjabov make some series of decisive mistake and lost the game. Kramnik then won the next two game and qualify himself for the semis.

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