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Round 1 World Cup: Eljanov, Sutovsky & Landa out

25 November 2007 22:07 PM | Last modified: 17:40

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

Comments

4 Responses to “Round 1 World Cup: Eljanov, Sutovsky & Landa out”

  1. Michel on 26 November 2007 11:57 AM

    Weet iemand hoe laat de partijen beginnen (ivm live-partijen)? Op de site kon ik daar niets van terugvinden.

  2. Bert de Bruut on 26 November 2007 12:16 PM

    3 pm Siberische tijd dacht ik, ik geloof 11 uur bij ons. Overigens lijkt het erop dat Loek niet is komen opdagen voor de eerste partij van de play-off en een reglementaire nul heeft opgelopen.

  3. Oak on 26 November 2007 15:18 PM

    Dan ben ik blij dat-ie de eerste ronde zwart had. Staat nu 2,5-2,5. Loek heeft nu zwart in een Siciliaan.

  4. Bert de Bruut on 26 November 2007 16:19 PM

    Er is nu toch een notatie van Loeks nul verschenen: gewoon matgezet :-) maar inmiddels toch een ronde verder :-))


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