Players and performances in Khanty-Mansiysk

12/20/2005 – The FIDE World Cup is over, the players are mostly back home. Time to take a look back at the 128 players who battled it out in the Siberian winter, to check the statistics of the top players and provide pictures of the many lesser-known participants that dropped out of the limelight earlier in the event. Big photo report.

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The FIDE World Chess Cup was staged from November 26th to December 18th, 2005, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. This 128-player event replaced what was known as the "FIDE Knockout World Championship" and served as a qualifier for the Candidates stage of the world championship. The prize fund was US $1.5 million, with President Ilyumzhinov providing $300,000 for organisational costs.

FIDE WORLD CUP, 2005 – Wrapup

All participants (click for detailled results)

 1   Ivanchuk, Vassily   GM   UKR   2748 
 2   Bacrot, Etienne   GM   FRA   2725 
 3   Aronian, Levon   GM   ARM   2724 
 4   Grischuk, Alexander   GM   RUS   2720 
 5   Gelfand, Boris   GM   ISR   2717 
 6   Shirov, Alexei   GM   ESP   2710 
 7   Akopian, Vladimir   GM   ARM   2707 
 8   Radjabov, Teimur   GM   AZE   2704 
 9   Ponomariov, Ruslan   GM   UKR   2704 
 10   Tiviakov, Sergei   GM   NED   2699 
 11   Sokolov, Ivan   GM   NED   2696 
 12   Dreev, Alexey   GM   RUS   2694 
 13   Kamsky, Gata   GM   USA   2690 
 14   Bologan, Viorel   GM   MDA   2682 
 15   Lautier, Joel   GM   FRA   2679 
 16   Bruzon, Lazaro   GM   CUB   2677 
 17   Bareev, Evgeny   GM   RUS   2675 
 18   Mamedyarov, Shak.  GM   AZE   2674 
 19   Vallejo, Francisco   GM   ESP   2674 
 20   Smirin, Ilia   GM   ISR   2673 
 21   Harikrishna, Pentala   GM   IND   2673 
 22   Malakhov, Vladimir   GM   RUS   2670 
 23   Sakaev, Konstantin   GM   RUS   2668 
 24   Volokitin, Andrei   GM   UKR   2666 
 25   Moiseenko, Alex.  GM   UKR   2663 
 26   Sasikiran, Krishnan   GM   IND   2663 
 27   Eljanov, Pavel   GM   UKR   2663 
 28   Nakamura, Hikaru   GM   USA   2662 
 29   Zvjaginsev, Vadim   GM   RUS   2659 
 30   Karjakin, Sergey   GM   UKR   2658 
 31   Timofeev, Artyom   GM   RUS   2658 
 32   Azmaiparashvili, Z.  GM   GEO   2658 
 33   Krasenkow, Michal   GM   POL   2655 
 34   Sutovsky, Emil   GM   ISR   2654 
 35   Areshchenko, Alex.  GM   UKR   2653 
 36   Khalifman, Alex.  GM   RUS   2653 
 37   Milov, Vadim   GM   SUI   2652 
 38   Gurevich, Mikhail   GM   BEL   2652 
 39   Rublevsky, Sergei   GM   RUS   2652 
 40   Van Wely, Loek   GM   NED   2648 
 41   Ye, Jiangchuan   GM   CHN   2648 
 42   Izoria, Zviad   GM   GEO   2646 
 43   Navara, David   GM   CZE   2646 
 44   Vescovi, Giovanni   GM   BRA   2646 
 45   Asrian, Karen   GM   ARM   2645 
 46   Jakovenko, Dmitry   GM   RUS   2644 
 47   Najer, Evgeniy   GM   RUS   2641 
 48   Naiditsch, Arkadij   GM   GER   2641 
 49   Onischuk, Alexander   GM   USA   2640 
 50   Granda, Julio   GM   PER   2637 
 51   Efimenko, Zahar   GM   UKR   2637 
 52   Smirnov, Pavel   GM   RUS   2637 
 53   Movsesian, Sergei   GM   SVK   2635 
 54   Kobalia, Mikhail   GM   RUS   2634 
 55   Miroshnichenko, Ev.   GM   UKR   2634 
 56   Motylev, Alexander   GM   RUS   2632 
 57   Alekseev, Evgeny   GM   RUS   2632 
 58   Beliavsky, Alex.   GM   SLO   2631 
 59   Kotronias, Vasilios   GM   GRE   2626 
 60   Felgaer, Ruben   GM   ARG   2624 
 61   Istratescu, Andrei   GM   ROM   2622 
 62   Milos, Gilberto   GM   BRA   2620 
 63   Kempinski, Robert   GM   POL   2619 
 64   Cheparinov, Ivan   GM   BUL   2618 
 
 65   Fedorov, Alexei   GM   BLR   2616 
 66   Vaganian, Rafael A   GM   ARM   2614 
 67   Sadvakasov, Darmen   GM   KAZ   2612 
 68   Ftacnik, Lubomir   GM   SVK   2612 
 69   Kaidanov, Gregory   GM   USA   2608 
 70   Ni, Hua   GM   CHN   2603 
 71   Jobava, Baadur   GM   GEO   2601 
 72   Kazhgaleyev, Murtas   GM   KAZ   2601 
 73   Roiz, Michael   GM   ISR   2600 
 74   Korneev, Oleg   GM   RUS   2599 
 75   Zhang, Zhong   GM   CHN   2598 
 76   Paragua, Mark   GM   PHI   2596 
 77   Bocharov, Dmitry   GM   RUS   2592 
 78   Macieja, Bartlomiej   GM   POL   2591 
 79   Ivanov, Alexander   GM   USA   2589 
 80   Popov, Valerij   GM   RUS   2588 
 81   Kotsur, Pavel   GM   KAZ   2587 
 82   Ghaem, Maghami   GM   IRI   2586 
 83   Leitao, Rafael   GM   BRA   2586 
 84   Wang, Yue   GM   CHN   2585 
 85   Adianto, Utut   GM   INA   2584 
 86   Nikolic, Predrag   GM   BIH   2584 
 87   Erenburg, Sergey   GM   ISR   2582 
 88   Xu, Jun   GM   CHN   2582 
 89   Minasian, Artashes   GM   ARM   2581 
 90   Dao, Thien Hai   GM   VIE   2581 
 91   Markus, Robert   GM   SCG   2579 
 92   Pantsulaia, Levan   GM   GEO   2578 
 93   Inarkiev, Ernesto   GM   RUS   2577 
 94   Stripunsky, Alex.  GM   USA   2576 
 95   Hamdouchi, Hichem   GM   MAR   2574 
 96   Ammonatov, Farrukh   GM   TJK   2572 
 97   Carlsen, Magnus   GM   NOR   2570 
 98   Agrest, Evgenij   GM   SWE   2570 
 99   Balogh, Csaba   GM   HUN   2567 
 100   Shulman, Yuri   GM   USA   2565 
 101   Ganguly, Surya  GM   IND   2562 
 102   Kudrin, Sergey   GM   USA   2551 
 103   Iljushin, Alexei   GM   RUS   2546 
 104   Kuzubov, Yuriy   GM   UKR   2541 
 105   Cao, Sang   GM   HUN   2538 
 106   Lima, Gustavo   GM   BRA   2529 
 107   Wang, Hao      CHN   2519 
 108   Yu, Shaoteng   GM   CHN   2516 
 109   Arencibia, Walter   GM   CUB   2510 
 110   Li, Shilong   GM   CHN   2510 
 111   Ibraev, Nurlan   IM   KAZ   2508 
 112   Rodrigo, Vasquez   GM   CHI   2506 
 113   Kabanov, Nikolai   IM   RUS   2506 
 114   Pridorozhni, Aleksei   IM   RUS   2506 
 115   Matamoros, Carlos   GM   ECU   2501 
 116   Zhao, Yun   GM   CHN   2500 
 117   Charbonneau, Pas.   IM   CAN   2500 
 118   Stefanova, Antoaneta   GM   BUL   2491 
 119   Belkhodja, Slim   GM   TUN   2490 
 120   Ahmed, Adly   GM   EGY   2480 
 121   Flores, Diego   IM   ARG   2479 
 122   Lane, Gary   IM   AUS   2445 
 123   Kuderinov, Kiril   FM   KAZ   2432 
 124   Kobese, Watu   IM   RSA   2400 
 125   Needleman, Gaston      ARG   2381 
 126   Frhat, Ali   FM   EGY   2306 
 127   Chumfwa, Stanley      ZAM   2303 
 128   Sibriaev, Aleksandr   FM   RUS   2264 

Ranks and Statistics

In this kind of event it is difficult to compare the relative performances of the participants. Often one players may have luck with his opponents, and may face weaker opposition in his way through the field. In the following table we have compiled the performance rating for all the top sixteen players, including the rapid and blitz games, which of course skew the results slightly.

No Player Nat. Elo
win
draw
loss
 tot.
%
 Perf.
 1 Levon Aronian ARM 2724
10
8
0
 18 78 2853
 2 Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 2704
9
9
2
 20 68 2784
 3 Etienne Bacrot FRA 2725
8
11
1
 20 68 2771
 4 Alexander Grischuk RUS 2720
9
11
4
 24 60 2723
 5 Evgeny Bareev RUS 2675
7
13
2
 22 61 2721
 6 Boris Gelfand ISR 2717
11
13
6
 30 58 2699
 7 Sergey Rublevsky RUS 2652
7
11
4
 22 57 2700
 8 Mikhail Gurevich BEL 2652
5
10
5
 20 50 2662
 9 Gata Kamsky USA 2690
11
11
4
 26 63 2707
10 Magnus Carlsen NOR 2570
11
8
7
 26 58 2713
11 Vladimir Malakhov RUS 2670
7
10
3
 20 60 2688
12 Francisco Vallejo ESP 2674
8
13
5
 26 56 2685
13 Alexey Dreev RUS 2694
9
12
5
 26 58 2703
14 Loek van Wely NED 2648
8
14
7
 29 52 2689
15 Joel Lautier FRA 2679
5
22
4
 31 52 2647
16 Konstantin Sakaev RUS 2668
6
11
4
 21 55 2683

Picture Gallery

By Frits Agterdenbos

Note that in each of the captions given below there are links that take you to a full record of the player at the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk – nation, rating, match results and FIDE rating card.


Gary Lane (2445 ) with his second Lee Jones, both from Australia. Lane got a bye against Akopian in round one and lost to Jobava


Ali Frhat (2306) and African champion GM Ahmed Adly (2480), both from Egypt


GM Ivan Sokolov (2696) from the Netherlands, who beat Stefanova and Zhang Zhong, but then lost to Malakhov.


GM Carlos Matamaros (2501) from Ecuador


Top seed Vassily Ivanchuk (2748) of Ukraine who was knocked out in the second round by Bulgarian talent Ivan Cheparinov


GM Alexei Iljushin (2546) who lost to Harikrishna in round one


GM Predrag Nikolic (2584) of Bosnia & Herzegovina


GM Csaba Balogh (2567) of Hungary


GM Pavel Smirnov (2637) from Russia


GMs Lubomir Ftacnik (2612) and Bartlomiej Macieja (2591) analysing


GMs Vladimir Malakhov (2670) and Sergei Tiviakov (2699)


Vasilios Kotronias (2626) from Greece lost to Shirov in round two


GM Alex Moiseenko (2663) of Ukraine


GM Teimur Radjabov (2704) of Azerbaijan


Marion Van Wely watching her husband's game


GM Wang Yue (2585) from China


GM Xu Jun (2582) of China


GM Zhang Zhong (2598) of China


GM Baadur Jobava (2601) from Georgia

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