World Cup: your predictions?
Tomorrow is the opening ceremony, and Saturday already the first game of the first round. The FIDE World Cup 2009, a knockout tournament of 128 players, will be held from November 20th till December 15th, 2009 in Khanty-Maniysk, Russia. What are your predictions?The World Cup wil consist of 6 rounds of matches comprising two 2 games per round, with the winners progressing to the next round, plus the final seventh (7th) round comprising of four (4) games. The final 7th round will be a match played over 4 games and the winner of the World Cup will be the first player to score 2.5 or more points. The winner will qualify for the 2010 FIDE Candidates Tournament.Pairings round 1
Table White Fed Black Fed 1 1 GM Gelfand, Boris ISR - 128 IM Obodchuk, Andrei RUS 2 2 GM Gashimov, Vugar AZE - 127 IM Sarwat, Walaa EGY 3 3 GM Svidler, Peter RUS - 126 IM Hebert, Jean CAN 4 4 GM Morozevich, Alexander RUS - 125 IM Abdel Razik, Khaled EGY 5 5 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE - 124 IM Ezat, Mohamed EGY 6 6 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR - 123 GM Bezgodov, Alexei RUS 7 7 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR - 122 GM El Gindy, Essam EGY 8 8 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS - 121 IM Sriram, Jha IND 9 9 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS - 120 GM Rizouk, Aimen ALG 10 10 GM Wang, Yue CHN - 119 GM Kabanov, Nikolai RUS 11 11 GM Eljanov, Pavel UKR - 118 GM Al Sayed, Mohamad N. QAT 12 12 GM Karjakin, Sergey UKR - 117 GM Rodriguez Vila, Andres URU 13 13 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE - 116 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 14 14 GM Shirov, Alexei ESP - 115 GM Kunte, Abhijit IND 15 15 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB - 114 GM Smerdon, David AUS 16 16 GM Movsesian, Sergei SVK - 113 GM Yu, Yangyi CHN 17 17 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA - 112 GM Yu, Shaoteng CHN 18 18 GM Alekseev, Evgeny RUS - 111 IM Pridorozhni, Aleksei RUS 19 19 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS - 110 GM Ivanov, Alexander USA 20 20 GM Wang, Hao CHN - 109 GM Friedel, Joshua E USA 21 21 GM Navara, David CZE - 108 GM Laylo, Darwin PHI 22 22 GM Malakhov, Vladimir RUS - 107 GM Amin, Bassem EGY 23 23 GM Bacrot, Etienne FRA - 106 GM Nijboer, Friso NED 24 24 GM Rublevsky, Sergei RUS - 105 GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan CHI 25 25 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO - 104 IM Robson, Ray USA 26 26 GM Motylev, Alexander RUS - 103 GM Hess, Robert L USA 27 27 GM Kamsky, Gata USA - 102 GM Antonio, Rogelio Jr PHI 28 28 GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS - 101 GM Gupta, Abhijeet IND 29 29 GM Bologan, Viktor MDA - 100 GM Adly, Ahmed EGY 30 30 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij GER - 99 GM Hou, Yifan CHN 31 31 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN - 98 GM Pelletier, Yannick SUI 32 32 GM Polgar, Judit HUN - 97 GM Pavasovic, Dusko SLO 33 33 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU - 96 GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU 34 34 GM Sargissian, Gabriel ARM - 95 GM Li, Chao b CHN 35 35 GM Onischuk, Alexander USA - 94 GM Flores, Diego ARG 36 36 GM Cheparinov, Ivan BUL - 93 GM Kryvoruchko, Yuriy UKR 37 37 GM Efimenko, Zahar UKR - 92 GM Milos, Gilberto BRA 38 38 GM Sutovsky, Emil ISR - 91 GM Zhou, Weiqi CHN 39 39 GM Najer, Evgeniy RUS - 90 GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan IRI 40 40 GM Tiviakov, Sergei NED - 89 GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo VEN 41 41 GM Areshchenko, Alexander UKR - 88 GM Corrales Jimenez, Fidel CUB 42 42 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan IND - 87 GM L'Ami, Erwin NED 43 43 GM Smirin, Ilia ISR - 86 GM Ehlvest, Jaan USA 44 44 GM Baklan, Vladimir UKR - 85 GM Shabalov, Alexander USA 45 45 GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar IND - 84 GM Filippov, Anton UZB 46 46 GM Fier, Alexandr BRA - 83 GM Khalifman, Alexander RUS 47 47 GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA - 82 GM Sjugirov, Sanan RUS 48 48 GM Meier, Georg GER - 81 GM Petrosian, Tigran L. ARM 49 49 GM Grachev, Boris RUS - 80 GM Bartel, Mateusz POL 50 50 GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA - 79 GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB 51 51 GM Sokolov, Ivan NED - 78 GM Fedorchuk, Sergey A. UKR 52 52 GM Milov, Vadim SUI - 77 GM Negi, Parimarjan IND 53 53 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS - 76 GM Leitao, Rafael BRA 54 54 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS - 75 GM Gustafsson, Jan GER 55 55 GM Savchenko, Boris RUS - 74 GM Shulman, Yuri USA 56 56 GM Kobalia, Mikhail RUS - 73 GM Sandipan, Chanda IND 57 57 GM Tkachiev, Vladislav FRA - 72 GM Le, Quang Liem VIE 58 58 GM Tregubov, Pavel V. RUS - 71 GM Akobian, Varuzhan USA 59 59 GM So, Wesley PHI - 70 GM Guseinov, Gadir AZE 60 60 GM Granda Zuniga, Julio E PER - 69 GM Sakaev, Konstantin RUS 61 61 GM Laznicka, Viktor CZE - 68 GM Papaioannou, Ioannis GRE 62 62 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS - 67 GM Nyback, Tomi FIN 63 63 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE - 66 GM Zhou, Jianchao CHN 64 64 GM Amonatov, Farrukh TJK - 65 GM Volkov, Sergey RUS
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