Sunday, November 25, 2007

FIDE World Cup Round 1

Many of the favorites won in round 1, including all top 7 seeds.

The following matches will be going into tiebreaks...
Ismagambetov, AnuarKAZ 2480 Alekseev, EvgenyRUS2716
Filippov, AntonUZB 2496 Akopian, VladimirARM2713
El Gindy, EssamEGY 2503 Ponomariov, RuslanUKR2705
Gopal, G.N.IND 2520 Kasimdzhanov, RustamUZB2690
Nguyen, Ngoc Truong SonVIE 2530 Van Wely, LoekNED2679
Andriasian, ZavenARM 2546 Onischuk, AlexanderUSA2674
Kunte, AbhijitIND 2547 Zvjaginsev, VadimRUS2674
Zhao, JunCHN 2552 Harikrishna, P.IND2668
Sasikiran, KrishnanIND 2661 Zhigalko, SergeiBLR2562
Baramidze, DavidGER 2569 Short, Nigel DENG2649
Mamedov, RaufAZE 2582 Tomashevsky, EvgenyRUS2646
Gagunashvili, MerabGEO 2584 Zhang, PengxiangCHN2644
Roiz, MichaelISR 2644 Akobian, VaruzhanUSA2585
Belov, VladimirRUS 2587 Khalifman, AlexanderRUS2643
Milos, GilbertoBRA 2592 Avrukh, BorisISR2641
Sakaev, KonstantinRUS 2634 Vitiugov, NikitaRUS2594
Kaidanov, Gregory SUSA 2597 Gurevich, MikhailTUR2627
Leitao, RafaelBRA 2601 Shulman, YuriUSA2616
Kozul, ZdenkoCRO 2609 Bruzon Batista, LazaroCUB2607
Galkin, AlexanderRUS 2608 Bartel, MateuszPOL2608

And of course it wouldn't be the World Cup without some upsets...
Eljanov, PavelUKR 2691½ Hossain EnamulBAN25141.5
Landa, KonstantinRUS 26780.5 Nevednichy, VladislavROU25311.5
Sutovsky, EmilISR 26550.5 Zhou, JianchaoCHN25661.5
Shabalov, AlexanderUSA 26260.5 Pavasovic, DuskoSLO25971.5
Rodshtein, MaximISR 26150.5 Gustafsson, JanGER26061.5
Macieja, BartlomiejPOL 26061.5 Laznicka, ViktorCZE26100.5

Edited to add link to official website:
http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/main_e.htm

1 comment:

ALD said...

The winners of the playoffs were...

Alekseev, Akopian, Ponomariov, Kasimdzhanov, Van Wely, Onischuk, Zvjaginsev, Zhao, Sasikiran, Baramidze, Tomashevsky, Zhang, Roiz, Belov, Avrukh, Sakaev, Gurevich, Shulman, Kozul, Galkin