Round 1 World Cup: Eljanov, Sutovsky & Landa out

This weekend the first two regular games of the World Cup’s first round were played and there were a few upsets: Eljanov was sent home 1,5-0,5 by Enamul Hossain, Landa didn’t survive against Nevednichy and Sutovsky too leaves Siberia with “only” 6,000 dollars in his suitcase after a 1,5-0,5 loss against Jianchao Zhou. Strickly speaking we should also mention Shabalov, Rodshtein and Laznicka as players who lost against lower-rated opponents.

Ponomariov and Alekseev experienced a little nightmare on Saturday and started with a zero against El Gindy and Ismagambetov respectively. They repaired the damage today and will go into the tiebreak tomorrow, which also counts for the matches Akopian-Filippov, Gopal-Kasimdzhanov, Nguyen-Van Wely, Andriasian-Onischuk, Kunte-Zvjaginsev, Jun Zhao-Harikrishna, Sasikiran-Zhigalko, Short-Baramidze, Mamedov-Tomashevsky, Gagunashvili-Pengxiang Zhang, Roiz-Akobian, Belov-Khalifman, Milos-Avrukh, Sakaev-Vitiugov, Kaidanov-M.Gurevich, Leitao-Shulman, Kozul-Bruzon and Galkin-Bartel.

For Cheparinov and Ghaem Maghami the first round was very easy since they didn’t meet their opponents (Gonzalez Zamora had retreated because of illness and Izoria couldn’t get his visa ready in time). Svidler only had to play his White game today because his opponent Iturrizaga arrived too late on Saturday.

World Cup Round 1 Results

No.	Name	Country	elo		Name	Country	elo	Result
1	Ivanchuk,V	UKR	2787	-	Aderito,P	ANG	2352	2-0
2	Mamedyarov,S	AZE	2752	-	Abdel Razik,K	EGY	2389	2-0
3	Radjabov,T	AZE	2742	-	Genba,V	RUS	2413	2-0
4	Aronian,L	ARM	2741	-	Hobaica,J	ARG	2427	2-0
5	Shirov,A	ESP	2739	-	Gwaze,R	ZIM	2429	2-0
6	Svidler,P	RUS	2732	-	Iturrizaga,E	VEN	2435	2-0
7	Adams,M	ENG	2729	-	Zugic,I	CAN	2477	1,5-0,5
8	Alekseev,E	RUS	2716	-	Ismagambetov,A	KAZ	2480	1-1
9	Grischuk,A	RUS	2715	-	Lima,D	BRA	2487	1,5-0,5
10	Carlsen,M	NOR	2714	-	Zhao,Z	AUS	2491	2-0
11	Kamsky,G	USA	2714	-	Adly,A	EGY	2494	1,5-0,5
12	Akopian,V	ARM	2713	-	Filippov,A	UZB	2496	1-1
13	Jakovenko,D	RUS	2710	-	Rahman,Z	BAN	2497	2-0
14	Ponomariov,R	UKR	2705	-	El Gindy,E	EGY	2503	1-1
15	Wang Yue	CHN	2703	-	Pridorozhni,A	RUS	2506	1,5-0,5
16	Bacrot,E	FRA	2695	-	Laylo,D	PHI	2508	1,5-0,5
17	Karjakin,S	UKR	2694	-	Matsuura,E	BRA	2511	2-0
18	Bu Xiangzhi	CHN	2692	-	Kabanov,N	RUS	2512	2-0
19	Eljanov,P	UKR	2691	-	Hossain,E	BAN	2514	0,5-1,5
20	Almasi,Z	HUN	2691	-	Wen Yang	CHN	2515	1,5-0,5
21	Malakhov,V	RUS	2690	-	Xu Yuhua	CHN	2517	2-0
22	Kasimdzhanov,R	UZB	2690	-	Gopal,GN	IND	2520	1-1
23	Dominguez,L	CUB	2683	-	Iljushin,A	RUS	2528	2-0
24	Van Wely,L	NED	2679	-	Nguyen,NTS	VIE	2530	1-1
25	Landa,K	RUS	2678	-	Nevednichy,V	ROU	2531	0,5-1,5
26	Volokitin,A	UKR	2678	-	Le,Q	VIE	2534	1,5-0,5
27	Rublevsky,S	RUS	2676	-	Hera,I	HUN	2544	1,5-0,5
28	Onischuk,A	USA	2674	-	Andriasian,Z	ARM	2546	1-1
29	Inarkiev,E	RUS	2674	-	Peralta,F	ARG	2546	1,5-0,5
30	Zvjaginsev,V	RUS	2674	-	Kunte,A	IND	2547	1-1
31	Cheparinov,I	BUL	2670	-	Gonzalez,JC	MEX	2552	2-0
32	Harikrishna,P	IND	2668	-	Zhao Jun	CHN	2552	1-1
33	Nisipeanu,LD	ROU	2668	-	Amin,B	EGY	2561	1,5-0,5
34	Tkachiev,V	FRA	2661	-	Balogh,C	HUN	2561	1,5-0,5
35	Sasikiran,K	IND	2661	-	Zhigalko,S	BLR	2562	1-1
36	Vallejo,F	ESP	2660	-	Kudrin,S	USA	2563	1,5-0,5
37	Nikolic,P	BIH	2657	-	Iljin,A	RUS	2565	2-0
38	Navara,D	CZE	2656	-	Ivanov,A	USA	2565	1,5-0,5
39	Sutovsky,E	ISR	2655	-	Zhou Jianchao	CHN	2566	0,5-1,5
40	Fressinet,L	FRA	2654	-	Flores,D	ARG	2566	2-0
41	Bareev,E	RUS	2653	-	Becerra,J	USA	2568	2-0
42	Short,N	ENG	2649	-	Baramidze,D	GER	2569	1-1
43	Georgiev,K	BUL	2649	-	Megaranto,S	INA	2569	2-0
44	Volkov,S	RUS	2648	-	Gajewski,G	POL	2573	1,5-0,5
45	Socko,B	POL	2646	-	Georgiev,V	MKD	2576	2-0
46	Tomashevsky,E	RUS	2646	-	Mamedov,R	AZE	2582	1-1
47	Motylev,A	RUS	2645	-	Savchenko,B	RUS	2583	1,5-0,5
48	Zhang Pengxiang	CHN	2644	-	Gagunashvili,M	GEO	2584	1-1
49	Roiz,M	ISR	2644	-	Akobian,V	USA	2585	1-1
50	Tiviakov,S	NED	2643	-	Ganguly,S	IND	2585	1,5-0,5
51	Wang Hao	CHN	2643	-	Markus,R	SRB	2586	1,5-0,5
52	Khalifman,A	RUS	2643	-	Belov,V	RUS	2587	1-1
53	Izoria,Z	GEO	2643	-	Ghaem Maghami,E	IRI	2591	0-2
54	Avrukh,B	ISR	2641	-	Milos,G	BRA	2592	1-1
55	Naiditsch,A	GER	2639	-	Granda Zuniga,J	PER	2592	1,5-0,5
56	Najer,E	RUS	2635	-	Berg,E	SWE	2593	1,5-0,5
57	Sakaev,K	RUS	2634	-	Vitiugov,N	RUS	2594	1-1
58	Gurevich,M	TUR	2627	-	Kaidanov,G	USA	2597	1-1
59	Shabalov,A	USA	2626	-	Pavasovic,D	SLO	2597	0,5-1,5
60	Shulman,Y	USA	2616	-	Leitao,R	BRA	2601	1-1
61	Rodshtein,M	ISR	2615	-	Gustafsson,J	GER	2606	0,5-1,5
62	Laznicka,V	CZE	2610	-	Macieja,B	POL	2606	0,5-1,5
63	Kozul,Z	CRO	2609	-	Bruzon,L	CUB	2607	1-1
64	Bartel,M	POL	2608	-	Galkin,A	RUS	2608	1-1

All games in PGN via TWIC. (It’s clear that a number of day-2 games are not complete.) Some fragments:

Ivanchuk had the honor of doing the drawing of lots.

FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov with Alexander Filippenko, the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous region

The venue

Board 1: Ivanchuk-Aderito

Mamedyarov, Carlsen and Bacrot

Magnus Carlsen has no mercy for the Australian talent Zong-Yuan Zhao

Gata Kamsky-Ahmed Adly

Experience in the house: Mikhail Gurevich-Gregory Kaidanov