FIDE World Chess Cup 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk begins

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.

Tiebreaks: In case of a tie four tie-break games are played, with a time control of 25 minutes for each player with an addition of 10 seconds after each move. If the score is still tied a match of two games is played, with a time control of five minutes plus three seconds increment after each move. In case of a level score, the same match is repeated. If still there is no winner after five such matches (total ten games), a single decisive sudden death game is played, according to the following rules: the player who wins the drawing of lots may choose the color. The player with the white pieces receives five minutes, the opponent with the black pieces receives four minutes, with both players receiving an increment of three seconds from move 61. In case of a draw the player with the black pieces is declared the winner.

The World Chess Cup is an integral part of the World Championship Cycle 2009-2011.

Prize fund for the World Cup

Round 1 losers	64 x US $6,000 (net $4,800)	US $384,000
Round 2 losers	32 x US $10,000 (net $8,000)	US $320,000
Round 3 losers	16 x US $16,000 (net $12,800)	US $256,000
Round 4 losers	8 x US $25,000 (net $20,000)	US $200,000
Round 5 losers	4 x US $35,000 (net $28,000)	US $140,000
Round 6 losers	2 x US $50,000 (net $40,000)	US $100,000
Runner-up	1 x US $80,000 (net $64,000)	US $80,000
World Cup winner	1 x US $120,000 (net $96,000)	US $120,000

Total: US $1,600,000. A payment of 20% from the total prize fund is made to FIDE.

Schedule of the World Cup 2009:

Friday	20 November	Opening Ceremony
Saturday	21 November	Round 1- Game 1
Sunday	22 November	Round 1 - Game 2
Monday	23 November	Tiebreaks
Tuesday	24 November	Round 2 - Game 1
Wednesday	25 November	Round 2 - Game 2
Thursday	26 November	Tiebreaks
Friday	27 November	Round 3 - Game 1
Saturday	28 November	Round 3 - Game 2
Sunday	29 November	Tiebreaks
Monday	30 November	Round 4 - Game 1
Tuesday	01 December	Round 4 - Game 2
Wednesday	02 December	Tiebreaks

Thursday	03 December	Round 5 - Game 1
Friday	04 December	Round 5 - Game 2
Saturday	05 December	Tiebreaks
Sunday	06 December	Round 6 - Game 1
Monday	07 December	Round 6 - Game 2
Tuesday	08 December	Tiebreaks
Wednesday	09 December	Free Day
Thursday	10 December	Round 7 - Game 1
Friday	11 December	Round 7 - Game 2
Saturday	12 December	Round 7 - Game 3
Sunday	13 December	Round 7 - Game 4
Monday	14 December	Tiebreaks / Closing
Tuesday	15 December	Departures

The venue: Khanty-Mansiysk

The town is located about 1400 miles (2250 km) east of Moscow, just north of Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River, 15 km from its confluence with the Ob. The name is pronounced "hanty-mansisk", with the first part rhyming with "hunty", the second pronounced "mun-sisk". If you are up to it, pronounce the initial "k" like the guttural "ch" in the German "Dach" or the Spanish "rojo". The Russian original is Ха́нты-Манси́йск.

The original place was called Samarovsky Yam, and was founded in 1637 by 50 horse-drivers with their families. They set up camp on the right bank of the Irtysh River, at the foot of steep mountains, with the thick cedar forest growing on them.The settlement became known as Samarovo, and the town of Khanty-Mansiysk originated from it.

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Opening ceremony

The Opening Ceremony ook place in the House of Culture “Oktyabr” on 20 November. The Governor of Khanty Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra Alexander Filipenko and the Vice Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov welcomed the participants. Zhukov called Khanty Mansiysk one of the chess capitals in Russia. Beautiful chess palaces are to be constructed before the start of the Chess Olympiad in 2010, which is to be held in this city.

A brass band from Khanty-Mansiysk opens the ceremony

The obligatory black-and-white (and maroon) chess ballet

A performer on the stage

Costumed models in the lobby...

The club “Druzhba” with its chess fashion show “Yugra chess”...

... young and talented designers from Nyagany Elena Goncharova,...

...Elena Chernysh, Ob-yugorsk theatre “Solnze”.

Beautiful chess players – a game with puppets

Players and vistors stand for the national anthem

All photos courtesy of FIDE

Participants

1	GM	Gelfand, Boris	2758	ISR	1968
2	GM	Gashimov, Vugar	2758	AZE	1986
3	GM	Svidler, Peter	2754	RUS	1976
4	GM	Morozevich, Alexander	2750	RUS	1977
5	GM	Radjabov, Teimour	2748	AZE	1987
6	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	2739	UKR	1969
7	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	2739	UKR	1983
8	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	2736	RUS	1983
9	GM	Jakovenko, Dmitry	2736	RUS	1983
10	GM	Wang, Yue	2734	CHN	1987
11	GM	Eljanov, Pavel	2729	UKR	1983
12	GM	Karjakin, Sergey	2723	UKR	1990
13	GM	Mamedyarov, Shak.	2719	AZE	1985
14	GM	Shirov, Alexei	2719	ESP	1972
15	GM	Dominguez, Leinier	2719	CUB	1983
16	GM	Movsesian, Sergei	2718	SVK	1978
17	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Max.	2718	FRA	1990
18	GM	Alekseev, Evgeny	2715	RUS	1985
19	GM	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	2708	RUS	1987
20	GM	Wang, Hao	2708	CHN	1989
21	GM	Navara, David	2707	CZE	1985
22	GM	Malakhov, Vladimir	2706	RUS	1980
23	GM	Bacrot, Etienne	2700	FRA	1983
24	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	2697	RUS	1974
25	GM	Jobava, Baadur	2696	GEO	1983
26	GM	Motylev, Alexander	2695	RUS	1979
27	GM	Kamsky, Gata	2695	USA	1974
28	GM	Vitiugov, Nikita	2694	RUS	1987
29	GM	Bologan, Viktor	2692	MDA	1971
30	GM	Naiditsch, Arkadij	2689	GER	1985
31	GM	Bu, Xiangzhi	2682	CHN	1985
32	GM	Polgar, Judit	2680	HUN	1976
33	GM	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	2677	ROU	1976
34	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	2676	ARM	1983
35	GM	Onischuk, Alexander	2672	USA	1975
36	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	2671	BUL	1986
37	GM	Efimenko, Zahar	2668	UKR	1985
38	GM	Sutovsky, Emil	2666	ISR	1977
39	GM	Najer, Evgeniy	2666	RUS	1977
40	GM	Tiviakov, Sergei	2664	NED	1973
41	GM	Areshchenko, Alex.	2664	UKR	1986
42	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	2664	IND	1981
43	GM	Smirin, Ilia	2662	ISR	1968
44	GM	Baklan, Vladimir	2655	UKR	1978
45	GM	Ganguly, Surya	2654	IND	1983
46	GM	Fier, Alexandr	2653	BRA	1988
47	GM	Fressinet, Laurent	2653	FRA	1981
48	GM	Meier, Georg	2653	GER	1987
49	GM	Grachev, Boris	2652	RUS	1986
50	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	2652	ITA	1992
51	GM	Sokolov, Ivan	2652	NED	1968
52	GM	Milov, Vadim	2652	SUI	1972
53	GM	Timofeev, Artyom	2651	RUS	1985
54	GM	Inarkiev, Ernesto	2645	RUS	1985
55	GM	Savchenko, Boris	2644	RUS	1986
56	GM	Kobalia, Mikhail	2643	RUS	1978
57	GM	Tkachiev, Vladislav	2642	FRA	1973
58	GM	Tregubov, Pavel V.	2642	RUS	1971
59	GM	So, Wesley	2640	PHI	1993
60	GM	Granda Zuniga, Julio	2640	PER	1967
61	GM	Laznicka, Viktor	2637	CZE	1988
62	GM	Andreikin, Dmitry	2636	RUS	1990
63	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	2634	AZE	1988
64	GM	Amonatov, Farrukh	2631	TJK	1978

65	GM	Volkov, Sergey	2629	RUS	1974
66	GM	Zhou, Jianchao	2629	CHN	1988
67	GM	Nyback, Tomi	2628	FIN	1985
68	GM	Papaioannou, Ioannis	2628	GRE	1976
69	GM	Sakaev, Konstantin	2626	RUS	1974
70	GM	Guseinov, Gadir	2625	AZE	1986
71	GM	Akobian, Varuzhan	2624	USA	1983
72	GM	Le, Quang Liem	2624	VIE	1991
73	GM	Sandipan, Chanda	2623	IND	1983
74	GM	Shulman, Yuri	2623	USA	1975
75	GM	Gustafsson, Jan	2622	GER	1979
76	GM	Leitao, Rafael	2621	BRA	1979
77	GM	Negi, Parimarjan	2620	IND	1993
78	GM	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	2619	UKR	1981
79	GM	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	2619	CUB	1982
80	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	2618	POL	1985
81	GM	Petrosian, Tigran L.	2615	ARM	1984
82	GM	Sjugirov, Sanan	2612	RUS	1993
83	GM	Khalifman, Alexander	2612	RUS	1966
84	GM	Filippov, Anton	2607	UZB	1986
85	GM	Shabalov, Alexander	2606	USA	1967
86	GM	Ehlvest, Jaan	2606	USA	1962
87	GM	L'Ami, Erwin	2606	NED	1985
88	GM	Corrales, Fidel	2605	CUB	1987
89	GM	Iturrizaga, Eduardo	2605	VEN	1989
90	GM	Ghaem Maghami, Eh.	2603	IRI	1982
91	GM	Zhou, Weiqi	2603	CHN	1986
92	GM	Milos, Gilberto	2603	BRA	1963
93	GM	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	2602	UKR	1986
94	GM	Flores, Diego	2602	ARG	1982
95	GM	Li, Chao b	2596	CHN	1989
96	GM	Lupulescu, Constantin	2591	ROU	1984
97	GM	Pavasovic, Dusko	2590	SLO	1976
98	GM	Pelletier, Yannick	2589	SUI	1976
99	GM	Hou, Yifan	2588	CHN	1994
100	GM	Adly, Ahmed	2583	EGY	1987
101	GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	2578	IND	1989
102	GM	Antonio, Rogelio Jr	2574	PHI	1962
103	GM	Hess, Robert L	2572	USA	1991
104	IM	Robson, Ray	2567	USA	1994
105	GM	Morovic, Ivan	2562	CHI	1963
106	GM	Nijboer, Friso	2561	NED	1965
107	GM	Amin, Bassem	2553	EGY	1988
108	GM	Laylo, Darwin	2552	PHI	1980
109	GM	Friedel, Joshua E	2551	USA	1986
110	GM	Ivanov, Alexander	2539	USA	1956
111	IM	Pridorozhni, Aleksei	2533	RUS	1981
112	GM	Yu, Shaoteng	2529	CHN	1979
113	GM	Yu, Yangyi	2527	CHN	1994
114	GM	Smerdon, David	2525	AUS	1984
115	GM	Kunte, Abhijit	2522	IND	1977
116	GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	2517	RUS	1984
117	GM	Rodriguez Vila, Andres	2508	URU	1973
118	GM	Al Sayed, Mohamad N.	2504	QAT
119	GM	Kabanov, Nikolai	2501	RUS	1980
120	GM	Rizouk, Aimen	2500	ALG	1979
121	IM	Sriram, Jha	2497	IND	1976
122	GM	El Gindy, Essam	2493	EGY	1966
123	GM	Bezgodov, Alexei	2484	RUS	1969
124	IM	Ezat, Mohamed	2472	EGY	1978
125	IM	Abdel Razik, Khaled	2469	EGY	1975
126	IM	Hebert, Jean	2420	CAN	1957
127	IM	Sarwat, Walaa	2405	EGY	1960
128	IM	Obodchuk, Andrei	2404	RUS	1955

Pairings for the first round

1	GM	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	-	IM	Obodchuk, Andrei	RUS
2	GM	Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	-	IM	Sarwat, Walaa	EGY
3	GM	Svidler, Peter	RUS	-	IM	Hebert, Jean	CAN
4	GM	Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	-	IM	Abdel Razik, Khaled	EGY
5	GM	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	-	IM	Ezat, Mohamed	EGY
6	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	-	GM	Bezgodov, Alexei	RUS
7	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	-	GM	El Gindy, Essam	EGY
8	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	-	IM	Sriram, Jha	IND
9	GM	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	-	GM	Rizouk, Aimen	ALG
10	GM	Wang, Yue	CHN	-	GM	Kabanov, Nikolai	RUS
11	GM	Eljanov, Pavel	UKR	-	GM	Al Sayed, Mohamad N.	QAT
12	GM	Karjakin, Sergey	UKR	-	GM	Rodriguez Vila, Andres	URU
13	GM	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	-	GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	RUS
14	GM	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	-	GM	Kunte, Abhijit	IND
15	GM	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB	-	GM	Smerdon, David	AUS
16	GM	Movsesian, Sergei	SVK	-	GM	Yu, Yangyi	CHN
17	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	-	GM	Yu, Shaoteng	CHN
18	GM	Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	-	IM	Pridorozhni, Aleksei	RUS
19	GM	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	-	GM	Ivanov, Alexander	USA
20	GM	Wang, Hao	CHN	-	GM	Friedel, Joshua E	USA
21	GM	Navara, David	CZE	-	GM	Laylo, Darwin	PHI
22	GM	Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	-	GM	Amin, Bassem	EGY
23	GM	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	-	GM	Nijboer, Friso	NED
24	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	-	GM	Morovic Fernandez, Ivan	CHI
25	GM	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	-	IM	Robson, Ray	USA
26	GM	Motylev, Alexander	RUS	-	GM	Hess, Robert L	USA
27	GM	Kamsky, Gata	USA	-	GM	Antonio, Rogelio Jr	PHI
28	GM	Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	-	GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	IND
29	GM	Bologan, Viktor	MDA	-	GM	Adly, Ahmed	EGY
30	GM	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GER	-	GM	Hou, Yifan	CHN
31	GM	Bu, Xiangzhi	CHN	-	GM	Pelletier, Yannick	SUI
32	GM	Polgar, Judit	HUN	-	GM	Pavasovic, Dusko	SLO
33	GM	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	ROU	-	GM	Lupulescu, Constantin	ROU
34	GM	Sargissian, Gabriel	ARM	-	GM	Li, Chao b	CHN
35	GM	Onischuk, Alexander	USA	-	GM	Flores, Diego	ARG
36	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	-	GM	Kryvoruchko, Yuriy	UKR
37	GM	Efimenko, Zahar	UKR	-	GM	Milos, Gilberto	BRA
38	GM	Sutovsky, Emil	ISR	-	GM	Zhou, Weiqi	CHN
39	GM	Najer, Evgeniy	RUS	-	GM	Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan	IRI
40	GM	Tiviakov, Sergei	NED	-	GM	Iturrizaga, Eduardo	VEN
41	GM	Areshchenko, Alexander	UKR	-	GM	Corrales Jimenez, Fidel	CUB
42	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	-	GM	L'Ami, Erwin	NED
43	GM	Smirin, Ilia	ISR	-	GM	Ehlvest, Jaan	USA
44	GM	Baklan, Vladimir	UKR	-	GM	Shabalov, Alexander	USA
45	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	IND	-	GM	Filippov, Anton	UZB
46	GM	Fier, Alexandr	BRA	-	GM	Khalifman, Alexander	RUS
47	GM	Fressinet, Laurent	FRA	-	GM	Sjugirov, Sanan	RUS
48	GM	Meier, Georg	GER	-	GM	Petrosian, Tigran L.	ARM
49	GM	Grachev, Boris	RUS	-	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	POL
50	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	-	GM	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	CUB
51	GM	Sokolov, Ivan	NED	-	GM	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	UKR
52	GM	Milov, Vadim	SUI	-	GM	Negi, Parimarjan	IND
53	GM	Timofeev, Artyom	RUS	-	GM	Leitao, Rafael	BRA
54	GM	Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	-	GM	Gustafsson, Jan	GER
55	GM	Savchenko, Boris	RUS	-	GM	Shulman, Yuri	USA
56	GM	Kobalia, Mikhail	RUS	-	GM	Sandipan, Chanda	IND
57	GM	Tkachiev, Vladislav	FRA	-	GM	Le, Quang Liem	VIE
58	GM	Tregubov, Pavel V.	RUS	-	GM	Akobian, Varuzhan	USA
59	GM	So, Wesley	PHI	-	GM	Guseinov, Gadir	AZE
60	GM	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	PER	-	GM	Sakaev, Konstantin	RUS
61	GM	Laznicka, Viktor	CZE	-	GM	Papaioannou, Ioannis	GRE
62	GM	Andreikin, Dmitry	RUS	-	GM	Nyback, Tomi	FIN
63	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	AZE	-	GM	Zhou, Jianchao	CHN
64	GM	Amonatov, Farrukh	TJK	-	GM	Volkov, Sergey	RUS

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