Favourites Falter In World Cup
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 |
