The first three games in the World Championship Candidates' final match in Kazan, Russia, between Alexander Grischuk and Boris Gelfand have all been drawn games - two of which being epic struggles that Muscovite Grischuk came close to winning, and the other, a big opening novelty (9...b5!!) from Gelfand, as black in the Queen's Gambit Declined that had all the fans following on ICC ready excited to follow what was going to happen in this adventurous gambit....only for the game to end in a 14 move draw!?!

All three games have been expertly annotated in our Game of the Day service - and even the 14 move draw proved worthy of watching, as Larry Christiansen expertly broke-down all the ramifications of a pawn sacrifice that's sure to of keen interest to the chess fans.

It's now come down to the crunch of the final final three games that will be played on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this coming week. If still tied at 3-3 after that, the match will move into a nerve-jangling series of a four-game rapid match (G/25+10); if the tie is still not broken, then up to to five two-game blitz matches will be followed if necessary by a sudden-death final deciding Armageddon game.

All of which will put additional pressures on both players, as the winner will go forward to play a 12-game World Title match against the current world champion Vishy Anand, scheduled to be played April/May of next year.

So which will emerge as Anand's challenger: Will it be Grischuk or will it be Gelfand? You can find out here on ICC, as play gets underway for the final three games on Monday, 23 May at 7:00AM ICC Server Time with Chess.FM commentary from GMs Ronen Har-Zvi and Gregory Kaidanov (and then with Yasser Seirawan joined by Jan Gustafsson and Alex Yermolinsky for the final two games). We'll also have our Game of the Day service and the New In Chess trivia contest, where each day an ICC member can win a 1-year subscription to New In Chess magazine. Join ICC today by clicking here for all the best in live coverage of the deciding games in the Grischuk-Gelfand Candidates Final clash.

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