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, Anuar

KAZ

2480

Alekseev, Evgeny

RUS

2716

Filippov, Anton

UZB

2496

Akopian, Vladimir

ARM

2713

El Gindy, Essam

EGY

2503

Ponomariov, Ruslan

UKR

2705

Gopal, G.N.

IND

2520

Kasimdzhanov, Rustam

UZB

2690

Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son

VIE

2530

Van Wely, Loek

NED

2679

Andriasian, Zaven

ARM

2546

Onischuk, Alexander

USA

2674

Kunte, Abhijit

IND

2547

Zvjaginsev, Vadim

RUS

2674

Zhao, Jun

CHN

2552

Harikrishna, P.

IND

2668

Sasikiran, Krishnan

IND

2661

Zhigalko, Sergei

BLR

2562

Baramidze, David

GER

2569

Short, Nigel D

ENG

2649

Mamedov, Rauf

AZE

2582

Tomashevsky, Evgeny

RUS

2646

Gagunashvili, Merab

GEO

2584

Zhang, Pengxiang

CHN

2644

Roiz, Michael

ISR

2644

Akobian, Varuzhan

USA

2585

Belov, Vladimir

RUS

2587

Khalifman, Alexander

RUS

2643

Milos, Gilberto

BRA

2592

Avrukh, Boris

ISR

2641

Sakaev, Konstantin

RUS

2634

Vitiugov, Nikita

RUS

2594

Kaidanov, Gregory S

USA

2597

Gurevich, Mikhail

TUR

2627

Leitao, Rafael

BRA

2601

Shulman, Yuri

USA

2616

Kozul, Zdenko

CRO

2609

Bruzon Batista, Lazaro

CUB

2607

Galkin, Alexander

RUS

2608

Bartel, Mateusz

POL

2608

And of course it wouldn't be the World Cup without some upsets...

Eljanov, Pavel

UKR

2691

½

Hossain Enamul

BAN

2514

1.5

Landa, Konstantin

RUS

2678

0.5

Nevednichy, Vladislav

ROU

2531

1.5

Sutovsky, Emil

ISR

2655

0.5

Zhou, Jianchao

CHN

2566

1.5

Shabalov, Alexander

USA

2626

0.5

Pavasovic, Dusko

SLO

2597

1.5

Rodshtein, Maxim

ISR

2615

0.5

Gustafsson, Jan

GER

2606

1.5

Macieja, Bartlomiej

POL

2606

1.5

Laznicka, Viktor

CZE

2610

0.5

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