Yu Yangyi beats Movsesian on first day World Cup
The day of the FIDE World Cup saw few surprises. The biggest upset was Yu Yangyi beating Sergei Movsesian, while e.g. Ponomariov, Shirov, Grischuk and Dominguez were held to a draw by their lower-rated opponents.The FIDE World Chess Cup takes place November 20th-December 15th inn Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. It's a seven-round knockout with six rounds of matches comprising two games per round. The final seventh round consists of four games. | Round 1 (November 21-23): 128 players | Round 5 (December 3-5): 8 players |
| Round 2 (November 24-26): 64 players | Round 6 (December 6-8): 4 players |
| Round 3 (November 27-29): 32 players | Round 7 (December 10-14): 2 players |
| Round 4 (November 30-December 2): 16 players |
The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move from move one. Games start at 15:00h local time (11:00 CET).
Round 1.1
We cannot understand that a tournament as important as the World Cup, organized for the third time already in Khanty-Mansiysk, still has trouble presenting 64 games of chess on the internet. On the first day the "live broadcast is stopped due to techncial reasons", the tournament website said. And at the moment of writing, an hour after the games of the second day started, a complete PGN file still isn't available (how difficult is it to enter some missing moves from a few scoresheets?). No doubt the technical problems are the result of a lower budget than in previous years, but with so many chess fans around the world rooting for their local hero, this is a major failure which cannot stay unmentioned. The first round was played, don't worry about that. Except for one minimatch, though. Judit Polgar has already qualified for the 2nd round because her opponent GM Dusko Pavasovic was not able to make it to Khanty-Mansiysk in time. According to a comment on Susan Polgar's blog, Pavasovic had an accident while playing football a few days ago.Most top players won without difficulty, although many of them had to claim the point after a long ending against their stubbornly defending underdogs. Some of them couldn't convert their advantage; Ponomariov for example (btw playing with a mouth mask!) drew in a rook ending with El Gindy, and Grischuk did the same against Sriram. Australian GM David Smerdon, whom we mentioned in our previous report, managed to draw his first game with Black against Dominguez in a Sicilian Dragon.Alexander Morozevich scored a nice, quick win in a Grünfeld against Abdel Razik. The surprise of the round was 15-year-old Yu Yangyi from China beating Sergei Movsesian in a Sicilian Taimanov. Yu Shoateng drew comfortably with Black against Vachier-Lagrave. Against Adly, Bologan gave a fine example of an attack in a middlegame with opposite-coloured bishops. Romanians Nisipeanu and Lupulescu were paired against each other in the first round and yet again it became clear how much stronger Nisi is that the other GMs in his country.Games round 1.1 (a number of them incomplete)
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Former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov with mouth protection...
...like one of the arbiters
Leinier Dominguez from Cuba drew his first game...
against David Smerdon (Australia)
Sergei Movsesian: in danger of an early knock-out
The favourite in the ChessVibes Poll: Vassily Ivanchuk
Shakhryiar Mamedyarov from Azerbaijan
Rising star from the US Ray Robson lost his first game to Jobava
Russian GM Sergei Rublevsky
GM Ilyia Smirin from Israel
All photos courtesy of FIDE
FIDE World Cup - Results round 1
| Name | Rtng | G1 | G2 | Rp1 | Rp2 | Bz1 | Bz2 | SD | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 Match 01 | |||||||||
| Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2758 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Obodchuk, Andrei | RUS | 2404 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 02 | |||||||||
| Sarwat, Walaa | EGY | 2405 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 2758 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 03 | |||||||||
| Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2754 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Hebert, Jean | CAN | 2420 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 04 | |||||||||
| Abdel Razik, Khaled | EGY | 2469 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2750 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 05 | |||||||||
| Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2748 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Ezat, Mohamed | EGY | 2472 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 06 | |||||||||
| Bezgodov, Alexei | RUS | 2484 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2739 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 07 | |||||||||
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2739 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| El Gindy, Essam | EGY | 2493 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 08 | |||||||||
| Sriram, Jha | IND | 2497 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2736 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 09 | |||||||||
| Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2736 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Rizouk, Aimen | ALG | 2500 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 10 | |||||||||
| Kabanov, Nikolai | RUS | 2501 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Wang, Yue | CHN | 2734 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 11 | |||||||||
| Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2729 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Al Sayed, Mohamad N. | QAT | 2504 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 12 | |||||||||
| Rodriguez Vila, Andres | URU | 2508 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 2723 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 13 | |||||||||
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2719 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | 2517 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 14 | |||||||||
| Kunte, Abhijit | IND | 2522 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 2719 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 15 | |||||||||
| Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2719 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Smerdon, David | AUS | 2525 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 16 | |||||||||
| Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2527 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Movsesian, Sergei | SVK | 2718 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 17 | |||||||||
| Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2718 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Yu, Shaoteng | CHN | 2529 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 18 | |||||||||
| Pridorozhni, Aleksei | RUS | 2533 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2715 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 19 | |||||||||
| Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2708 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Ivanov, Alexander | USA | 2539 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 20 | |||||||||
| Friedel, Joshua E | USA | 2551 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Wang, Hao | CHN | 2708 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 21 | |||||||||
| Navara, David | CZE | 2707 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Laylo, Darwin | PHI | 2552 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 22 | |||||||||
| Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2553 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2706 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 23 | |||||||||
| Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2700 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Nijboer, Friso | NED | 2561 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 24 | |||||||||
| Morovic Fernandez, Ivan | CHI | 2562 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2697 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 25 | |||||||||
| Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2696 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Robson, Ray | USA | 2567 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 26 | |||||||||
| Hess, Robert L | USA | 2572 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 2695 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 27 | |||||||||
| Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2695 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Antonio, Rogelio Jr | PHI | 2574 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 28 | |||||||||
| Gupta, Abhijeet | IND | 2578 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2694 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 29 | |||||||||
| Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 2692 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Adly, Ahmed | EGY | 2583 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 30 | |||||||||
| Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2588 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2689 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 31 | |||||||||
| Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2682 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Pelletier, Yannick | SUI | 2589 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 33 | |||||||||
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2677 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Lupulescu, Constantin | ROU | 2591 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 34 | |||||||||
| Li, Chao b | CHN | 2596 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Sargissian, Gabriel | ARM | 2676 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 35 | |||||||||
| Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2672 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Flores, Diego | ARG | 2602 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 36 | |||||||||
| Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2602 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2671 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 37 | |||||||||
| Efimenko, Zahar | UKR | 2668 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Milos, Gilberto | BRA | 2603 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 38 | |||||||||
| Zhou, Weiqi | CHN | 2603 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2666 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 39 | |||||||||
| Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | 2666 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan | IRI | 2603 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 40 | |||||||||
| Iturrizaga, Eduardo | VEN | 2605 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Tiviakov, Sergei | NED | 2664 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 41 | |||||||||
| Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2664 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Corrales Jimenez, Fidel | CUB | 2605 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 42 | |||||||||
| L'Ami, Erwin | NED | 2606 | 1 | 0.5 | |||||
| Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2664 | 0 | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 43 | |||||||||
| Smirin, Ilia | ISR | 2662 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Ehlvest, Jaan | USA | 2606 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 44 | |||||||||
| Shabalov, Alexander | USA | 2606 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Baklan, Vladimir | UKR | 2655 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 45 | |||||||||
| Ganguly, Surya Shekhar | IND | 2654 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Filippov, Anton | UZB | 2607 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 46 | |||||||||
| Khalifman, Alexander | RUS | 2612 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Fier, Alexandr | BRA | 2653 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 47 | |||||||||
| Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2653 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Sjugirov, Sanan | RUS | 2612 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 48 | |||||||||
| Petrosian, Tigran L. | ARM | 2615 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Meier, Georg | GER | 2653 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 49 | |||||||||
| Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2652 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Bartel, Mateusz | POL | 2618 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 50 | |||||||||
| Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | 2619 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2652 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 51 | |||||||||
| Sokolov, Ivan | NED | 2652 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | UKR | 2619 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 52 | |||||||||
| Negi, Parimarjan | IND | 2620 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Milov, Vadim | SUI | 2652 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 53 | |||||||||
| Timofeev, Artyom | RUS | 2651 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Leitao, Rafael | BRA | 2621 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 54 | |||||||||
| Gustafsson, Jan | GER | 2622 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2645 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 55 | |||||||||
| Savchenko, Boris | RUS | 2644 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Shulman, Yuri | USA | 2623 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 56 | |||||||||
| Sandipan, Chanda | IND | 2623 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Kobalia, Mikhail | RUS | 2643 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 57 | |||||||||
| Tkachiev, Vladislav | FRA | 2642 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2624 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 58 | |||||||||
| Akobian, Varuzhan | USA | 2624 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Tregubov, Pavel V. | RUS | 2642 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 59 | |||||||||
| So, Wesley | PHI | 2640 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Guseinov, Gadir | AZE | 2625 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 60 | |||||||||
| Sakaev, Konstantin | RUS | 2626 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Granda Zuniga, Julio E | PER | 2640 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 61 | |||||||||
| Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 2637 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Papaioannou, Ioannis | GRE | 2628 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 62 | |||||||||
| Nyback, Tomi | FIN | 2628 | 1 | 1.0 | |||||
| Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2636 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 63 | |||||||||
| Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2634 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Zhou, Jianchao | CHN | 2629 | ½ | 0.5 | |||||
| Round 1 Match 64 | |||||||||
| Volkov, Sergey | RUS | 2629 | 0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Amonatov, Farrukh | TJK | 2631 | 1 | 1 | |||||
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