Favourites Falter In World Cup

Submitted by SonofPearl on Tue, 11/24/2009 at 1:47pm.

The first games in round 2 of the 2009 Chess World Cup have thrown up some potential shock results, as several of the favourites lost to lower ranked players.

Peter Svidler (pictured), Alexander Morozevich, Teimour Radjabov and Vassily Ivanchuk all lost and now need to win the second games of their 2-game mini-matches to survive!

Full results from the first games of round two are below:

1	Amonatov, Farrukh	TJK	½-½	Gelfand, Boris	ISR
2	Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	½-½	Zhou, Jianchao	CHN
3	Nyback, Tomi	FIN	1-0	Svidler, Peter	RUS
4	Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	0-1	Laznicka, Viktor	CZE
5	Sakaev, Konstantin	RUS	1-0	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE
6	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	0-1	So, Wesley	PHI
7	Akobian, Varuzhan	USA	½-½	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR
8	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	1-0	Tkachiev, Vladislav	FRA
9	Sandipan, Chanda	IND	0-1	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS
10	Wang, Yue	CHN	1-0	Savchenko, Boris	RUS
11	Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	1-0	Eljanov, Pavel	UKR
12	Karjakin, Sergey	UKR	½-½	Timofeev, Artyom	RUS
13	Milov, Vadim	SUI	0-1	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE
14	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	1-0	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	UKR
15	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	½-½	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB
16	Yu, Yangyi	CHN	1-0	Bartel, Mateusz	POL
17	Meier, Georg	GER	½-½	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA
18	Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	½-½	Fressinet, Laurent	FRA
19	Khalifman, Alexander	RUS	½-½	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS
20	Wang, Hao	CHN	1-0	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	IND
21	Shabalov, Alexander	USA	½-½	Navara, David	CZE
22	Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	½-½	Smirin, Ilia	ISR
23	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	0-1	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA
24	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	½-½	Areshchenko, Alexander	UKR
25	Iturrizaga, Eduardo	VEN	½-½	Jobava, Baadur	GEO
26	Motylev, Alexander	RUS	1-0	Najer, Evgeniy	RUS
27	Zhou, Weiqi	CHN	0-1	Kamsky, Gata	USA
28	Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	½-½	Milos, Gilberto	BRA
29	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	½-½	Bologan, Viktor	MDA
30	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GER	1-0	Onischuk, Alexander	USA
31	Li, Chao b	CHN	0-1	Pelletier, Yannick	SUI
32	Polgar, Judit	HUN	½-½	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	ROU

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by bongrabulan59 - 2 years ago
quezon city Philippines

Member Since: Aug 2009
Member Points: 7

go wesley kaya mo pa yan white ka sa next round wag mong tirahan ng complicated moves para madali ang draw sure ako magpplit yan kunat kunat lang kaya mo yan

by davepinoy - 2 years ago
BC Canada Philippines

Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 10

Carlsen who???

Its easy to underestimate Wesley So, but he is about to dump another super Gm in Gata kamsky...whats carlsen record against Ivanchuk and Kamsky?

by tanmay_chakrabarti - 2 years ago
Uttarpara India

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 2093

Nice reporting.

by SilentWalker - 2 years ago
Milpitas, CA United States

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Member Points: 595

Sasikiran gets mated - you don't see this type of checkmate happen very often at the top grandmaster level.

by FM VPA - 2 years ago
Valsad-Gujarat India

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Very interesting games with lots of pyrotechnics.

by Helwin - 2 years ago
Quezon City Philippines

Member Since: Jun 2009
Member Points: 4

Good game Wesley! Make wave till the top for the filipino's pride. We here in KSA (Riyadh chess club and the SSS H.O chess club) for sure are praying hard for your success in this chess world cup.

by bardsi - 2 years ago
Reykjavík Iceland

Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 11

Can anyone explain to me why both players just ignored the rook on b6 in the Morozevich-Laznicka game?

by nibir - 2 years ago
Dhaka Bangladesh

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Member Points: 11375

Amazing game by Ivanchuk vs So

by cris142305 - 2 years ago
san mateo rizal Philippines

Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 25

swerte pa rin draw na sana un,,, kung s basketball bilog ang bola s chess bilog ang ulo ng pawn!!!! go wesley,,, kahit draw n lng s pangalawa aus na!!!

by kinetics - 2 years ago
Haiti

Member Since: Sep 2009
Member Points: 22

wonder boy wesley so booked another win......congratz and Godbless you....

by forrie - 2 years ago
Vanderbijlpark South Africa

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Member Points: 805

"Ivanchuk could force a draw by repetition on 19th move. :/"

I also saw that.

Cant believe he kept on playing especially (as it looks to me) as if he was down on material then?

by rubenshein - 2 years ago
Oopenhagen Denmark

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Amazing games, esp. the 3 first! Really cool play.

by qw3rty - 2 years ago
Gorzów Wielkopolski Poland

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Member Points: 21

Ivanchuk could force a draw by repetition on 19th move. :/

by schleichnaldo - 2 years ago
heemstede Netherlands

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Member Points: 195

eljanov svidler and radjabov lost how sad:(

by bongrabulan59 - 2 years ago
quezon city Philippines

Member Since: Aug 2009
Member Points: 7

pagbutihin mo wesley kaya mo yan

by Oyong - 2 years ago
Padang Indonesia

Member Since: Oct 2009
Member Points: 64

Suprises in the beginning, suprises in the middle, will it go on till the end?

by inotgramps - 2 years ago
United States

Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 43

Dimitry Jackovenko !.....Case Closed !....Next Case.

by PedritoPiedra - 2 years ago
Trenton United States

Member Since: Nov 2009
Member Points: 11

Konstantin Sakaev will win it all! since Magnus Carlsen is not competing

by birrel - 2 years ago
Tampere Finland

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Member Points: 34

Way to go Nybäck, an outstanding win against much stronger opponent (2628 vs. 2754)!

by iliosis - 2 years ago
Pskov Russia

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Member Points: 1372

Originally I thought Radjabov or Morozevich were going to win this one, now with their streak of losses I will have to stick to my 3rd favourite on this list, Karjakin.

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