Upsets galore in Round one of the World Cup
11/24/2007 – 126 players are now in Khanty-Mansiysk (two did not turn up) for the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. This knockout tournament determines who will be the challenger for the next World Championship. In the first game of round one there were a number of surprises, with famous GMs struggling against much lower-ranked players. Illustrated report with games and results.
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A total of 126 participants turned up on November 23 for the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. 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.
Schedule of the World Cup 2007
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Khanty-Mansiysk
The town is located about 1400 miles (2250 km) east of Moscow, just north of Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River, 15 km from its confluence with the Ob. The name is pronounced "hanty-mansisk", with the first part rhyming with "hunty", the second with "fun-sick". If you are up to it, pronounce the initial "k" like the guttural "ch" in the German "Dach" or the Spanish "rojo". The Russian original is Ха́нты-Манси́йск.
The original place was called Samarovsky Yam, and was founded in 1637 by 50 horse-drivers with their families. They set up camp on the right bank of the Irtysh River, at the foot of steep mountains, with the thick cedar forest growing on them.The settlement became known as Samarovo, and the town of Khanty-Mansiysk originated from it.
Khanty-Mansiysk – map by Google Earth
Arrival and opening
Airport encounter: GMs Levon Aronian and Sergey Tiviakov on their way to
Khanty-Mansiysk
First impression: a forest covered in snow – the temperature is minus
10°C (14°F)
Hotel Yugorskaya Dolina, where the event is being staged
The opening with FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Folklore and chess themed culture at the opening ceremony
Round one Game one
There were upsets galore in the first game of Round one. The world's number 17 player, Gata Kamsky, rated 2714, could only draw with the white pieces against Junior World Champion Ahmed Adly, who is rated 220 points below him. Similarly Michael Adams, rated 2729, drew against Igor Zugic, who is 252 points below him. IM Anur Ismagambetov of Kazakhstan, rated 2480, beat GM Evgeny Alekseev, rated 2716.
Levon Aronian, ARM, 2741, vs Juan Pablo Hobaica, ARG, 2427 – Aronian
won
Susanto Megaranto, Indonesia, 2569, vs Kiril Georgiev, BUL, 2649 –
Georgiev won
US grandmaster Alexander Shabalov, 2626, who lost to Dusko Pavasovic, SLO,
2597
Things were even worse for some other well-known grandmasters: Former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, rated 2705, lost to Essam El Gindy, who is nominally 202 points weaker; Konstantin Landa, 2678, lost to Vladislav Nevednichy, 2531; and US GM Alexander Shabalov, 2626, lost with white to Dusko Pavasovic, 2597.
Shocking: Ruslan Ponomariov, UKR, 2705, lost to Essam El Gindy, EGY, 2503
Evgeny Bareev, RUS, 2653, who beat Julio Becerra Rivero, USA, 2568
Second seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, AZE, 2752, beat Khaled Abdel Razik 2389
Nigel Short, ENG, 2649 vs David Baramidze, GER, 2569 – draw
The top seeds Ivanchuk, Mamedyarov, Radjabov, Aronian, Shirov, Svidler, Grischuk and Carlsen all won their first games from round one. No big surprises there.
All photos by GM Sergey Tiviakov
All results of Round one Game one
| No. | White | Res. |
Black | Score |
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| 1 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 1-0 |
Aderito, Pedro | ANG | 1-0 |
| 2 | Abdel Razik, Khaled | EGY | 0-1 |
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 0-1 |
| 3 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 1-0 |
Genba, Vladimir | RUS | 1-0 |
| 4 | Hobaica, Juan Pablo | ARG | 0-1 |
Aronian, Levon | ARM | 0-1 |
| 5 | Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 1-0 |
Gwaze, Robert | ZIM | 1-0 |
| 6 | Iturrizaga, Eduardo | VEN | --- |
Svidler, Peter | RUS | 0-2* |
| 7 | Adams, Michael | ENG | ½-½ |
Zugic, Igor | CAN | ½-½ |
| 8 | Ismagambetov, Anuar | KAZ | 1-0 |
Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 1-0 |
| 9 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 1-0 |
Lima, Darcy | BRA | 1-0 |
| 10 | Zhao, Zong-Yuan | AUS | 0-1 |
Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 0-1 |
| 11 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | ½-½ |
Adly, Ahmed | EGY | ½-½ |
| 12 | Filippov, Anton | UZB | ½-½ |
Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | ½-½ |
| 13 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 1-0 |
Rahman, Ziaur | BAN | 1-0 |
| 14 | El Gindy, Essam | EGY | 1-0 |
Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 1-0 |
| 15 | Wang, Yue | CHN | ½-½ |
Pridorozhni, Aleksei | RUS | ½-½ |
| 16 | Laylo, Darwin | PHI | ½-½ |
Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | ½-½ |
| 17 | Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 1-0 |
Matsuura, Everaldo | BRA | 1-0 |
| 18 | Kabanov, Nikolai | RUS | 0-1 |
Bu, Xiangzhi | CHN | 0-1 |
| 19 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | ½-½ |
Hossain Enamul | BAN | ½-½ |
| 20 | Wen Yang | CHN | 0-1 |
Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 0-1 |
| 21 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 1-0 |
Xu, Yuhua | CHN | 1-0 |
| 22 | Gopal, G.N. | IND | ½-½ |
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | ½-½ |
| 23 | Dominguez Perez, Lenier | CUB | 1-0 |
Iljushin, Alexei | RUS | 1-0 |
| 24 | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | VIE | ½-½ |
Van Wely, Loek | NED | ½-½ |
| 25 | Landa, Konstantin | RUS | 0-1 |
Nevednichy, Vladislav | ROU | 0-1 |
| 26 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | ½-½ |
Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | ½-½ |
| 27 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 1-0 |
Hera, Imre Jr. | HUN | 1-0 |
| 28 | Andriasian, Zaven | ARM | ½-½ |
Onischuk, Alexander | USA | ½-½ |
| 29 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | ½-½ |
Peralta, Fernando | ARG | ½-½ |
| 30 | Kunte, Abhijit | IND | ½-½ |
Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | ½-½ |
| 31 | Cheparinov, Ivan | BUL | --- |
Gonzalez Zamora, Juan | BUL | 2-0* |
| 32 | Zhao, Jun | CHN | ½-½ |
Harikrishna, P. | IND | ½-½ |
| 33 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 1-0 |
Amin, Bassem | EGY | 1-0 |
| 34 | Balogh, Csaba | HUN | ½-½ |
Tkachiev, Vladislav | FRA | ½-½ |
| 35 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | ½-½ |
Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | ½-½ |
| 36 | Kudrin, Sergey | USA | 0-1 |
Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 0-1 |
| 37 | Nikolic, Predrag | BIH | 1-0 |
Iljin, Artem | RUS | 1-0 |
| 38 | Ivanov, Alexander | USA | ½-½ |
Navara, David | CZE | ½-½ |
| 39 | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | ½-½ |
Zhou, Jianchao | CHN | ½-½ |
| 40 | Flores, Diego | ARG | 0-1 |
Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 0-1 |
| 41 | Bareev, Evgeny | RUS | 1-0 |
Becerra Rivero, Julio | USA | 1-0 |
| 42 | Baramidze, David | GER | ½-½ |
Short, Nigel D | ENG | ½-½ |
| 43 | Georgiev, Kiril | BUL | 1-0 |
Megaranto, Susanto | INA | 1-0 |
| 44 | Gajewski, Grzegorz | POL | 0-1 |
Volkov, Sergey | RUS | 0-1 |
| 45 | Socko, Bartosz | POL | 1-0 |
Georgiev, Vladimir | MKD | 1-0 |
| 46 | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | ½-½ |
Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | ½-½ |
| 47 | Motylev, Alexander | RUS | 1-0 |
Savchenko, Boris | RUS | 1-0 |
| 48 | Gagunashvili, Merab | GEO | ½-½ |
Zhang, Pengxiang | CHN | ½-½ |
| 49 | Roiz, Michael | ISR | ½-½ |
Akobian, Varuzhan | USA | ½-½ |
| 50 | Ganguly, Surya Shekhar | IND | 0-1 |
Tiviakov, Sergei | NED | 0-1 |
| 51 | Wang, Hao | CHN | ½-½ |
Markus, Robert | SRB | ½-½ |
| 52 | Belov, Vladimir | RUS | ½-½ |
Khalifman, Alexander | RUS | ½-½ |
| 54 | Milos, Gilberto | BRA | ½-½ |
Avrukh, Boris | ISR | ½-½ |
| 55 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | ½-½ |
Granda Zuniga, Julio E | PER | ½-½ |
| 56 | Berg, Emanuel | SWE | 0-1 |
Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | 0-1 |
| 57 | Sakaev, Konstantin | RUS | ½-½ |
Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | ½-½ |
| 58 | Kaidanov, Gregory S | USA | ½-½ |
Gurevich, Mikhail | TUR | ½-½ |
| 59 | Shabalov, Alexander | USA | 0-1 |
Pavasovic, Dusko | SLO | 0-1 |
| 60 | Leitao, Rafael | BRA | ½-½ |
Shulman, Yuri | USA | ½-½ |
| 61 | Rodshtein, Maxim | ISR | ½-½ |
Gustafsson, Jan | GER | ½-½ |
| 62 | Macieja, Bartlomiej | POL | 1-0 |
Laznicka, Viktor | CZE | 1-0 |
| 63 | Kozul, Zdenko | CRO | ½-½ |
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | ½-½ |
| 64 | Galkin, Alexander | RUS | 1-0 |
Bartel, Mateusz | POL | 1-0 |
* Two matches were decided without play because two players failed to appear in Khanty-Mansiysk: Mexican GM Juan Carlos Gonzalez Zamora withdrew due to illness, and Georgian GM Zvaid Izoria could not travel due to problems with his visa.
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