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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.
First of all: Happy Birthday Magnus. You are now seventeen!
Pictures from the official World Cup web site
Analysis to follow...
| 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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