Pairings round 1 World Cup published
3 November 2009, 10.20 CET | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags: FIDE, World Cup
The FIDE World Cup 2009 will be a knockout tournament of 128 players, held from November 20th till December 15th, 2009 in Khanty-Maniysk, Russia, just like the previous two World Cups won by Levon Aronian and Gata Kamsky respectively. After the publication of the new rating list, FIDE immediately announced the pairings of the first round.
Khanty-Mansiysk is an oil boom town in Russia, the administrative center of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. It is located on the Irtysh River, 15 km from its confluence with the Ob. Besides the World Cups, Khanty-Mansiysk was the venue of the 2003 Biathlon World Championships, and in 2005 the first Mixed Biathlon Relay (4×6 km) took place there.
World Cup format
There shall be 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.
Round 1 (November 21-23): 128 players
Round 2 (November 24-26): 64 players
Round 3 (November 27-29): 32 players
Round 4 (November 30-December 2): 16 players
Round 5 (December 3-5): 8 players
Round 6 (December 6-8): 4 players
Round 7 (December 10-14): 2 players
The time control shall be 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. For the first 6 rounds, each match shall be played over 2 games and the winner of a match shall be the first player to score 1.5 or more points. 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.
Extended tiebreak
This edition will feature an extended format for tiebreaks. A maximum of four rapid games will be played, and if the score is still equal, there will be up to five pairs of blitz games. If the tie is broken after any pair of games, the tiebreak will end. Failing that, an armageddon game will be played, where players will have three-second increments beginning with move 61.
Prize fund
Round 1 losers: 64 x USD 6,000 (net 4,800) USD 384,000 Round 2 losers: 32 x USD 10,000 (net 8,000) USD 320,000 Round 3 losers: 16 x USD 16,000 (net 12,800) USD 256,000 Round 4 losers: 8 x USD 25,000 (net 20,000) USD 200,000 Round 5 losers: 4 x USD 35,000 (net 28,000) USD 140,000 Round 6 losers: 2 x USD 50,000 (net 40,000) USD 100,000 Runner-up: 1 x USD 80,000 (net 64,000) USD 80,000 World Cup winner: 1 x USD 120,000 (net 96,000) USD 120,000 Total: USD 1,600,000
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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Here is the whole pairing tree:
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I really hope the babe Kosteniuk beats Iwantmymammydov. I hate him since he accused someone of using a computer to demolish him. He should have got a ban for his comments and nothing came of it in the end. He sickens me….
Make him your bitch Alex….
Alex Morozevich will be exhausted…
Such a shame a final between L’Ami and Nijboer is not possible with this pairing…
Looking forward to the event.
I notice Ni Hua’s name is no longer amongst the participants, so I guess the organisers from London have had a stern word with him about his obligation to their tournament.
I think Radjabov will win this 3rd edition, as I believe he has the incentive to do better after an emphatic loss to Macieja in only the second round last year which would surely have been very disappointing for the Azeri grandmaster.
I’m rooting for Ray Robinson, but there’s no way he’s going to beat Jobava coming of his performance at Novi Sad.
Is it possible to put the ratings in the pairing?
Vadim Milov replaces Ni Hua.
Go Gata!!
33 33 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU – 96 GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU
@castro:sad indeed!
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Anyway i bet that the match between the two will be decided after tiebreak cause Dieter’s style has become lately so drawish.it’s so sad.he better retire.
Well then let´s hope at least Nisipeanu makes a very good performance in the whole championship in representation of his country. I really like him
Looking at the entire pairing tree (link by Muadhib), in the next round Nisipeanu would probably face Judit Polgar, then Gelfand, then (increasingly hard to predict or guess) Vachier-Lagrave or Movsesian, then maybe Grischuk or Jakovenko, … [much later Ponomariov if everything goes well for both of them
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