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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.
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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 |
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