World Chess Cup R1 off to a rocking start

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Hi everyone,


The World Cup of Chess 2011 is off to a rocking start in the Ugra region of Khanty-Mansiysk. If you haven't seen it, you must not miss it now: The awesome HD live coverage of the event at the official website. Follow the live computer game analysis at this link.


For now, here are the first round results and some nice decisive first round games. You will need a couple of hours to go through them but worth the investment. Have a great chessy start to the week.
:)

	Round 1. Game 1
1	Kaabi, Mejdi (TUN)	0−1	Karjakin, Sergey (RUS)
2	Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR)	1−0	Steel, Henry Robert (RSA)
3	Ibrahim, Hatim (EGY)	0−1	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE)
4	Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR)	1−0	Gwaze, Robert (ZIM)
5	Hansen, Eric (CAN)	0−1	Gashimov, Vugar (AZE)
6	Grischuk, Alexander (RUS)	1−0	Genba, Vladimir (RUS)
7	De La Paz Perdomo, Frank (CUB)	0−1	Radjabov, Teimour (AZE)
8	Kamsky, Gata (USA)	1−0	Di Berardino, Diego Rafae (BRA)
9	Lima, Darcy (BRA)	½-½	Svidler, Peter (RUS)
10	Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS)	1−0	Salem, A.R. Saleh (UAE)
11	Bezgodov, Alexei (RUS)	½-½	Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS)
12	Almasi, Zoltan (HUN)	1−0	El Gindy, Essam (EGY)
13	Cori, Jorge (PER)	0−1	Vallejo Pons, Francisco (ESP)
14	Navara, David (CZE)	1−0	Kabanov, Nikolai (RUS)
15	Rahman, Ziaur (BAN)	½-½	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA)
16	Dominguez Perez, Leinier (CUB)	1−0	Moradiabadi, Elshan (IRI)
17	Ivanov, Alexander (USA)	1−0F	Wang, Hao (CHN)
18	Leko, Peter (HUN)	0−1	Shankland, Samuel L (USA)
19	Esen, Baris (TUR)	½-½	Moiseenko, Alexander (UKR)
20	Le, Quang Liem (VIE)	1−0	Megaranto, Susanto (INA)
21	Paragua, Mark (PHI)	0−1	Adams, Michael (ENG)
22	Shirov, Alexei (ESP)	1−0	Leon Hoyos, Manuel (MEX)
23	Guliyev, Namig (AZE)	0−1	Jobava, Baadur (GEO)
24	Caruana, Fabiano (ITA)	1−0	Pridorozhni, Aleksei (RUS)
25	Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynal (CUB)	0−1	Nepomniachtchi, Ian (RUS)
26	Bacrot, Etienne (FRA)	½-½	Robson, Ray (USA)
27	Fier, Alexandr (BRA)	1−0	Wang, Yue (CHN)
28	Tomashevsky, Evgeny (RUS)	1−0	Zhao, Zong-Yuan (AUS)
29	Babula, Vlastimil (CZE)	½-½	Efimenko, Zahar (UKR)
30	Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS)	½-½	Felgaer, Ruben (ARG)
31	Vorobiov, Evgeny E. (RUS)	½-½	Sutovsky, Emil (ISR)
32	Movsesian, Sergei (ARM)	1−0	Hou, Yifan (CHN)
33	Corrales Jimenez, Fidel (CUB)	0−1	Polgar, Judit (HUN)
34	Fressinet, Laurent (FRA)	1−0	Jumabayev, Rinat (KAZ)
35	Zherebukh, Yaroslav (UKR)	½-½	Eljanov, Pavel (UKR)
36	Berkes, Ferenc (HUN)	1−0	Mareco, Sandro (ARG)
37	Kazhgaleyev, Murtas (KAZ)	½-½	Andreikin, Dmitry (RUS)
38	Morozevich, Alexander (RUS)	½-½	Halkias, Stelios (GRE)
39	Filippov, Anton (UZB)	1−0	Zhigalko, Sergei (BLR)
40	Riazantsev, Alexander (RUS)	1−0	Bluvshtein, Mark (CAN)
41	Drozdovskij, Yuri (UKR)	½-½	Motylev, Alexander (RUS)
42	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw (POL)	1−0	Pashikian, Arman (ARM)
43	Shulman, Yuri (USA)	½-½	Potkin, Vladimir (RUS)
44	Nielsen, Peter Heine (DEN)	½-½	Postny, Evgeny (ISR)
45	Romanov, Evgeny (RUS)	½-½	Grachev, Boris (RUS)
46	Inarkiev, Ernesto (RUS)	1−0	Salgado Lopez, Ivan (ESP)
47	Gupta, Abhijeet (IND)	½-½	Mamedov, Rauf (AZE)
48	Kobalia, Mikhail (RUS)	½-½	Lysyj, Igor (RUS)
49	Socko, Bartosz (POL)	0−1	Bologan, Viktor (MDA)
50	Bu, Xiangzhi (CHN)	1−0	Adly, Ahmed (EGY)
51	Ivanisevic, Ivan (SRB)	½-½	Onischuk, Alexander (USA)
52	Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB)	½-½	Quesada Perez, Yuniesky (CUB)
53	Parligras, Mircea-Emilian (ROU)	1−0	Yu, Yangyi (CHN)
54	Korobov, Anton (UKR)	1−0	Zhou, Jianchao (CHN)
55	Rodshtein, Maxim (ISR)	0−1	Harikrishna, P. (IND)
56	Li, Chao b (CHN)	½-½	Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son (VIE)
57	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter (ROU)	0−1	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam (UZB)
58	Akopian, Vladimir (ARM)	0−1F	Negi, Parimarjan (IND)
59	Iordachescu, Viorel (MDA)	1−0	Feller, Sebastien (FRA)
60	Timofeev, Artyom (RUS)	½-½	Azarov, Sergei (BLR)
61	Khairullin, Ildar (RUS)	½-½	Ni, Hua (CHN)
62	Fridman, Daniel (GER)	½-½	Lupulescu, Constantin (ROU)
63	Ragger, Markus (AUT)	½-½	Alekseev, Evgeny (RUS)
64	So, Wesley (PHI)	½-½	Ding, Liren (CHN)

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