Khanty-Mansiysk: Cheparinov, Adams, Kamsky win

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11/30/2007 – FIDE World Cup: five decisive games in the first leg of round three, all won with the white pieces. The most spectacular was second seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov's loss to the young Bulgarian GM (and Topalov second) Ivan Cheparinov. Michael Adams, Gata Kamsky, Dmitry Jakovenko and Wang Yue were the other winners. Express report.

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A total of 126 participants turned up on November 23 for the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, located about 1400 miles (2250 km) east of Moscow. The competition is taking place from November 24 to December 18. The winner of the World Cup receives the right to challenge the former world champion Veselin Topalov in a match.

Round three Game one (Friday, November 30)

First of all: Happy Birthday Magnus. You are now seventeen!

Pictures from the official World Cup web site

Analysis to follow...

Round three results

No.	Name	Nat	Rtng	G1	G2	R1	R2	B1	B2	SD	Tot.
01	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2787	½							0.5
01	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	ROU	2668	½							0.5
02	Cheparinov, Ivan	BUL	2670	1							1.0
02	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2752	0							0.0
03	Macieja, Bartlomiej	POL	2606	½							0.5
03	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	2661	½							0.5
04	Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	2674	½							0.5
04	Aronian, Levon	ARM	2741	½							0.5
05	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2739	½							0.5
05	Onischuk, Alexander	USA	2674	½							0.5
06	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	2676	½							0.5
06	Svidler, Peter	RUS	2732	½							0.5
07	Adams, Michael	ENG	2729	1							1.0
07	Zhou, Jianchao	CHN	2566	0							0.0
08	Fressinet, Laurent	FRA	2654	½							0.5
08	Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	2716	½							0.5
09	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	2715	½							0.5
09	Bareev, Evgeny	RUS	2653	½							0.5
10	Dominguez Perez, Lenier	CUB	2683	½							0.5
10	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2714	½							0.5
11	Kamsky, Gata	USA	2714	1							1.0
11	Georgiev, Kiril	BUL	2649	0							0.0
12	Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	2690	½							0.5
12	Akopian, Vladimir	ARM	2713	½							0.5
13	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	2710	1							1.0
13	Almasi, Zoltan	HUN	2691	0							0.0
14	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	2646	½							0.5
14	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2705	½							0.5
15	Wang, Yue	CHN	2703	1							1.0
15	Bu, Xiangzhi	CHN	2692	0							0.0
16	Karjakin, Sergey	UKR	2694	½							0.5
16	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	2695	½							0.5