Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov drew with Russian Evgeny Bareev in the first game of the quarterfinals of the World Cup, which is taking place in the Russian city of Khanty-Mansiysk. \n \nThe other quarterfinal games ended as follows: \n \nRublevsky (Russia) - Bacrot (France) - 0.5:0.5 \n \nAronian (Armenia) - Gurevich (Belgium) - 0.5:0.5 \n \nGelfand (Israel) - Grischuk (Russia) - 1:0. \n