Khanty-Mansiysk: Cheparinov, Adams, Kamsky win
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 | ||||||
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2668 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 02 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | 2670 | 1 |
1.0 | ||||||
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2752 | 0 |
0.0 | |||||||
| 03 | Macieja, Bartlomiej | POL | 2606 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2661 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 04 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2674 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2741 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 05 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 2739 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2674 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 06 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2676 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2732 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 07 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2729 | 1 |
1.0 | ||||||
| Zhou, Jianchao | CHN | 2566 | 0 |
0.0 | |||||||
| 08 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2654 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2716 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 09 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2715 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Bareev, Evgeny | RUS | 2653 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 10 | Dominguez Perez, Lenier | CUB | 2683 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2714 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 11 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2714 | 1 |
1.0 | ||||||
| Georgiev, Kiril | BUL | 2649 | 0 |
0.0 | |||||||
| 12 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2690 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2713 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 13 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2710 | 1 |
1.0 | ||||||
| Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2691 | 0 |
0.0 | |||||||
| 14 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2646 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2705 | ½ |
0.5 | |||||||
| 15 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2703 | 1 |
1.0 | ||||||
| Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 2692 | 0 |
0.0 | |||||||
| 16 | Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 2694 | ½ |
0.5 | ||||||
| Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2695 | ½ |
0.5 |
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