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The FIDE World Chess Cup is taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk from November 20th to December 15th 2009. It is a seven-round knockout event with six rounds of matches comprising two games per round, with the winners progressing to the next round. The final seventh round consists of four games. The time control is 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. Games start at 15:00h local time, which is GMT +5 hours = 11:00 a.m. European time = 5 a.m. New York. The World Chess Cup is an integral part of the World Championship Cycle 2009-2011.
In the following list "upsets" are given in italics.
| No. | Player | Player | R1 | R2 |
| 1 | Gelfand, Boris (ISR) | Obodchuk, Andrei (RUS) | 1-0 | |
| 2 | Sarwat, Walaa (EGY) | Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) | 0-1 | |
| 3 | Svidler, Peter (RUS) | Hebert, Jean (CAN) | 1-0 | |
| 4 | Abdel Razik, Khaled (EGY) | Morozevich, Alexander (RUS) | 0-1 | |
| 5 | Radjabov, Teimour (AZE) | Ezat, Mohamed (EGY) | 1-0 | |
| 6 | Bezgodov, Alexei (RUS) | Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) | 0-1 | |
| 7 | Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) | El Gindy, Essam (EGY) | ½-½ | |
| 8 | Sriram, Jha (IND) | Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) | ½-½ | |
| 9 | Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) | Rizouk, Aimen (ALG) | 1-0 | |
| 10 | Kabanov, Nikolai (RUS) | Wang, Yue (CHN) | 0-1 | |
| 11 | Eljanov, Pavel (UKR) | Al Sayed, Mohamad N. (QAT) | 1-0 | |
| 12 | Rodriguez Vila, Andres (URU) | Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) | 0-1 | |
| 13 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) | Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) | 1-0 | |
| 14 | Kunte, Abhijit (IND) | Shirov, Alexei (ESP) | ½-½ | |
| 15 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier (CUB) | Smerdon, David (AUS) | ½-½ | |
| 16 | Yu, Yangyi (CHN) | Movsesian, Sergei (SVK) | 1-0 | |
| 17 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA) | Yu, Shaoteng (CHN) | ½-½ | |
| 18 | Pridorozhni, Aleksei (RUS) | Alekseev, Evgeny (RUS) | ½-½ | |
| 19 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny (RUS) | Ivanov, Alexander (USA) | 1-0 | |
| 20 | Friedel, Joshua E (USA) | Wang, Hao (CHN) | 0-1 | |
| 21 | Navara, David (CZE) | Laylo, Darwin (PHI) | 1-0 | |
| 22 | Amin, Bassem (EGY) | Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) | 0-1 | |
| 23 | Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) | Nijboer, Friso (NED) | ½-½ | |
| 24 | Morovic Fernandez, Ivan (CHI) | Rublevsky, Sergei (RUS) | 0-1 | |
| 25 | Jobava, Baadur (GEO) | Robson, Ray (USA) | 1-0 | |
| 26 | Hess, Robert L (USA) | Motylev, Alexander (RUS) | ½-½ | |
| 27 | Kamsky, Gata (USA) | Antonio, Rogelio Jr (PHI) | 1-0 | |
| 28 | Gupta, Abhijeet (IND) | Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) | ½-½ | |
| 29 | Bologan, Viktor (MDA) | Adly, Ahmed (EGY) | 1-0 | |
| 30 | Hou, Yifan (CHN) | Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER) | ½-½ | |
| 31 | Bu, Xiangzhi (CHN) | Pelletier, Yannick (SUI) | ½-½ | |
| 33 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter (ROU) | Lupulescu, Constantin (ROU) | 1-0 | |
| 34 | Li, Chao b (CHN) | Sargissian, Gabriel (ARM) | ½-½ | |
| 35 | Onischuk, Alexander (USA) | Flores, Diego (ARG) | ½-½ | |
| 36 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy (UKR) | Cheparinov, Ivan (BUL) | ½-½ | |
| 37 | Efimenko, Zahar (UKR) | Milos, Gilberto (BRA) | 0-1 | |
| 38 | Zhou, Weiqi (CHN) | Sutovsky, Emil (ISR) | ½-½ | |
| 39 | Najer, Evgeniy (RUS) | Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan (IRI) | 1-0 | |
| 40 | Iturrizaga, Eduardo (VEN) | Tiviakov, Sergei (NED) | ½-½ | |
| 41 | Areshchenko, Alexander (UKR) | Corrales Jimenez, Fidel (CUB) | 1-0 | |
| 42 | L'Ami, Erwin (NED) | Sasikiran, Krishnan (IND) | ½-½ | |
| 43 | Smirin, Ilia (ISR) | Ehlvest, Jaan (USA) | 1-0 | |
| 44 | Shabalov, Alexander (USA) | Baklan, Vladimir (UKR) | 1-0 | |
| 45 | Ganguly, Surya Shekhar (IND) | Filippov, Anton (UZB) | 1-0 | |
| 46 | Khalifman, Alexander (RUS) | Fier, Alexandr (BRA) | ½-½ | |
| 47 | Fressinet, Laurent (FRA) | Sjugirov, Sanan (RUS) | 1-0 | |
| 48 | Petrosian, Tigran L. (ARM) | Meier, Georg (GER) | ½-½ | |
| 49 | Grachev, Boris (RUS) | Bartel, Mateusz (POL) | ½-½ | |
| 50 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB) | Caruana, Fabiano (ITA) | ½-½ | |
| 51 | Sokolov, Ivan (NED) | Fedorchuk, Sergey A. (UKR) | 0-1 | |
| 52 | Negi, Parimarjan (IND) | Milov, Vadim (SUI) | 1-0 | |
| 53 | Timofeev, Artyom (RUS) | Leitao, Rafael (BRA) | ½-½ | |
| 54 | Gustafsson, Jan (GER) | Inarkiev, Ernesto (RUS) | 1-0 | |
| 55 | Savchenko, Boris (RUS) | Shulman, Yuri (USA) | ½-½ | |
| 56 | Sandipan, Chanda (IND) | Kobalia, Mikhail (RUS) | 1-0 | |
| 57 | Tkachiev, Vladislav (FRA) | Le, Quang Liem (VIE) | ½-½ | |
| 58 | Akobian, Varuzhan (USA) | Tregubov, Pavel V. (RUS) | 1-0 | |
| 59 | So, Wesley (PHI) | Guseinov, Gadir (AZE) | 1-0 | |
| 60 | Sakaev, Konstantin (RUS) | Granda Zuniga, Julio E (PER) | ½-½ | |
| 61 | Laznicka, Viktor (CZE) | Papaioannou, Ioannis (GRE) | 1-0 | |
| 62 | Nyback, Tomi (FIN) | Andreikin, Dmitry (RUS) | 1-0 | |
| 63 | Mamedov, Rauf (AZE) | Zhou, Jianchao (CHN) | ½-½ | |
| 64 | Volkov, Sergey (RUS) | Amonatov, Farrukh (TJK) | 0-1 |
GM Dusko Pavasovic, the opponent of Judith Polgar, was not able to make it to Khanty-Mansiysk in time. Their game (number 32 in the pairings) was not played.
The playing hall in Khanty-Mansiysk – not exactly packed with spectators
The head arbiter has an overview of all the tables and all the games
It's catching on: Ruslan Ponomariov with a anti swine flu mask. It may have
thwarted
the flu viruses, but it didn't help in the game – Ponomariov drew against...
... GM Essam El Gindy of Egypt, rated 246 Elo points below him.
Playing without a mask Vassily Ivanchuk easily won his black game against
GM Alexei Bezgodov of Russia, 255 points below him on the rating scale
Even the arbiters wear masks in these days of pandemic alarms
Abdel Razik,K (2469) - Morozevich,A (2750) [D90]
World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk RUS (1.1), 21.11.2009
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.g3 dxc4 6.Qa4+ Nfd7 7.Bg2 Nc6
8.Bf4 Nb6 9.Qb5 0-0 10.0-0-0 a5 11.d5 Nb4 12.Qc5?
12...Bxc3 13.bxc3 Nxa2+ 14.Kb1 Nxc3+ 15.Ka1 Qe8 16.Qa3 Nbxd5 17.Rxd5 Nxd5 18.Bh6 Ra6 19.Rc1 b5 20.Qb2 c3 21.Qb3 b4 22.Bxf8 Kxf8 0-1.
Alexander Grischuk worked hard on a rook ending with an extra pawn but was
unable
to overcome the defence of Indian IM Jha Sriram rated 233 Elo points below him.
Pavel Eljanov was lucky to get the full point when his 225-point weaker
opponent blundered
Eljanov,P (2729) - Al Sayed,Mohamad (2504) [E97]
World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk RUS (1.1), 21.11.2009
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.d5
Ne7 9.Qc2 Nh5 10.g3 f5 11.Ng5 f4 12.Qd1 Nf6 13.c5 h6 14.Ne6 Bxe6 15.dxe6 Nc6
16.cxd6 cxd6 17.Nd5 Kh7 18.gxf4 Nxe4 19.Kh1 Qh4 20.Qc2 Nxf2+ 21.Rxf2 Nd4 22.Qe4
Qxf2 23.Bd3 Qf3+ 24.Qxf3 Nxf3 25.e7 Rfe8 26.f5 gxf5 27.Bxf5+ Kh8 28.Be3 Nd4
29.Bxd4 exd4 30.Rg1
30...Rac8?? Simply putting the rook en prise and worse in an essentially drawn position. 31.Bxc8 Rxc8 32.Nc7 1-0.
Parimarjan Negi, India, won a nice game against GM Vadim Milov of Switzerland
Ray Robson, the hottest US talent, did not survive against Georgian
GM Baadur Jobava
All photos courtesy of FIDE
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