World Chess Cup November 27 - December 17 Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia : http://www.worldchesscup2005.com/ (English and Russian) : LIVE COVERAGE ON ICC "finger Live" and www.Chess.FM
7 rounds of matches start with 128 players : Rounds 4-7 16 players for places 1-16
Time control: Start with 90 minutes. Add 15 minutes after move 40. : Add 30 seconds after every move.
Tiebreak: 2 games at 25 10. : If still tied: 2 games at 5 10. : If still tied: Armageddon white 6 minutes, black 5.
All matches are two games, one game per day. : If needed, tiebreaks are the third day : Games start 5:00 AM ICC time
10 advance to FIDE candidates matches, : Aronian Ponomariov Bacrot Grischuk Bareev Gelfand : Rublevsky Gurevich Kamsky Carlsen (probably Malakhov too)
"finger WorldCup05-1a" 1b and 1c for round 1 : "finger WorldCup05-2a" and 2b for round 2 : "finger WorldCup05-3" 4 5 6 7 for rounds 3-7
Prizes US$ (After 20% FIDE fee) 1)80,000 2)56,000 3)44,800 : 4)41,600 5)38,400 6)36,000 7)33,600 8)31,200 9)28,000
10)26,400 11)24,800 12)23,200 13)21,600 14)20,000 : 15)18,400 16)16,800 Round 3 losers 11,200 : Round 2 losers 7200 Round 1 losers 4800