Play chess like GM Peter Svidler - all games from World Cup of Chess 2011
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Hello everyone,
Want to play chess like Peter Svidler? Check out all these games played by the Russian champion at the World Cup of Chess that concluded recently in Khanty-Mansiysk. A lot of 21 games for you to enjoy and learn from!
Photos from the closing ceremony: Official World Cup of Chess Website.
You can run the games from the pop-down menu of each of the following three game players.
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World Chess Cup R6 tiebreaks: Grischuk knocks out Ivanchuk to play final with Svidler
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
It's going to be an all-Russian final at the World Chess Cup. Playing scintillating chess on Wednesday, Alexander Grischuk bettered Vassily Ivanchuk to reach the final for a chance at the title against compatriot Peter Svidler. The final will start on Friday in Khanty-Mansiysk. Vassily Ivanchuk will play against his compatriot Ruslan Ponomariov for the 3rd and 4th place to decided on the third spot in the next FIDE Candidates tournament.
Vassily Ivanchuk Goodbye... but only for now and (right) Alexander Grischuk way to go still.
The 2011 FIDE World Cup is a 128-player knock-out taking place August 27-September 20 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia. The tournament delivers three participants for the next Candidates tournament/matches, as part of the new World Championship cycle. Except for the final, all rounds have 2-game matches at the FIDE time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes to finish the game, with a 30-second increment from the first move. In case of a 1-1 tie, on the third day of the round there's a tie-break with rapid games and if necessary blitz games and an Armageddon.
You can access a high-definition live broadcast at the official website.
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World Chess Cup R6.2: Svidler beats Ponomariov to enter finals; Ivanchuk-Grischuk play tiebreak tomorrow
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
Congratulations to Grandmaster Peter Svidler for making it to the finals of the World Chess Cup 2011. He beat Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov in the second match of Round 6. That earned him a place in the final. Alexander Grischuk and Vassily Ivanchuk drew both classical games and a tie-break on Wednesday will decide which player will face Svidler in the final, and which player will fight Ponomariov for the third spot in the next FIDE Candidates tournament. You will remember that Svidler is the current reigning Russian champion and recently won the title for the sixth time.
Svidler versus Ponomariov
And, Svidler's remark at the press conference: The usual story. An opening I've been playing for 25 years non-stop and yet I'm seriously worse after ten moves. 7...Bd7 is probably a mistake. After 8.Qa3! Black is in quite a bit of trouble. The play I chose is the only way to justify my ridicolous 7..Bd7.
Grischuk versus Ivanchuk
As you know, the 2011 FIDE World Cup is a 128-player knock-out taking place August 27-September 20 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia. The tournament delivers three participants for the next Candidates tournament/matches, as part of the new World Championship cycle. Except for the final, all rounds have 2-game matches at the FIDE time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes to finish the game, with a 30-second increment from the first move. In case of a 1-1 tie, on the third day of the round there's a tie-break with rapid games and if necessary blitz games and an Armageddon.
Here are the games of Round 6.2 via the official website.
Round 6. Game 2
1 0.5−1.5 Ponomariov, R (UKR) 0−1 Svidler, Peter (RUS) View
2 1−1 Ivanchuk, V (UKR) ½-½ Grischuk, A (RUS) View
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World Cup of Chess R5.2: Judit knocked out; Svidler, Ponomariov through to semifinals
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
Round 5.2 saw a Russian and a Ukrainian go through to the next round. Peter Svidler beat Judit Polgar and Ruslan Ponomariov beat Vugar Gashimov. On the other boards, Teimour Radjabov (who had lost the first game of the round) struck back to win against Vassily Ivanchuk. They now play the tiebreaks tomorrow. Also playing the tiebreaks tomorrow will be Alexander Grischuk and David Navara who drew their second game also today.
Don't forget to watch the great high-definition live broadcast at the official website. (Find great photos of both the semifinalists - Peter Svidler and Ruslan Ponomariov at www.chesspics.com.)
Here are the exciting games for you to follow via the official website link.
Round 5. Game 2 match
1 0.5−1.5 Polgar, Judit (HUN)0−1 Svidler, Peter (RUS) View
2 1−1 Radjabov, T (AZE)1−0 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) View
3 1−1 Navara, David (CZE)½-½ Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) View
4 0.5−1.5 Gashimov, Vugar (AZE)0−1 Ponomariov, R (UKR) View
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World Chess Cup R5.1: Ivanchuk scores, others draw
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
The World Cup of Chess is the big chess event happening around. And, Round 5 started on Friday with three draws and one decisive game. Hope you're following the excellent high definition broadcast at the official website.
Vassily Ivanchuk: Find great photos of the world's top grandmasters at www.chesspics.com
Round 5. Game 1
1 0.5−0.5 Svidler, Peter (RUS) ½-½ Polgar, Judit (HUN) View
2 1−0 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) 1−0 Radjabov, T (AZE) View
3 0.5−0.5 Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) ½-½ Navara, D (CZE) View
4 0.5−0.5 Ponomariov, R (UKR) ½-½ Gashimov, V (AZE) View
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World Chess Cup R4 tiebreaks: Both Cubans knocked out, Judit, Ruslan, Ivanchuk, Gashimov through to R5
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
It's going to be two Russians, two Azeris, two Ukrainians, one Hungarian and one Czech in the last eight at the World Cup of Chess 2011 currently on in Khanty Mansiysk. In the very exciting tiebreaks on Thursday we had the following results:
1.Judit Polgar - Leinier Perez Dominguez 4.5-3.5
2.Ruslan Ponomariov - Lazaro Bruzon Batista 4.5-3.5
3.Peter Svidler - Gata Kamsky 2-0
4.Vugar Gashimov - Peter Heine Nielsen 4-2
5.Vassily Ivanchuk - Bu Xiangzhi 3-1
6.Teimour Radjabov - Dmitry Jakovenko 1.5-1
7.David Navara - Zherebukh 2-0
8.Alexander Grischuk - Vladimir Potkin 2.5-1.5
Here are the links to final high-tension tiebreak games to finish.
- Dominguez P, Leinier (CUB)0−1 Polgar, J (HUN) View
- Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR)1−0 Bruzon L (CUB) View
You can access the official website at this link for high resolution videos and press conference reports. We resume Round 5 on Friday. Stay tuned.
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World Chess Cup R4.2: Judit makes monumental effort to beat super fight from Dominguez
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
Despite the high merit in all the games, it is going to be Leinier Dominguez Perez-Judit Polgar that is surely going to pass into history for Round 4.2 of the World Cup of Chess currently on in Khanty-Mansiysk! Or, what else would you say about Judit Polgar's nerves of steel, deep calculation against the rock solid defense of Leinier Dominguez Perez - all the way to 112 moves for more than five hours!
Meanwhile, we forgot to notice that the young Yaroslav Zherebukh is knocked out losing both games to David Navara, Dmitry Jakovenko is knocked out by Teimour Radjabov and Gata Kamsky has been knocked out by Peter Svidler. Now, we have some great tiebreaks coming up tomorrow just when we thought there might not be any for the fourth round. Such is the power of chess.
Here are all the great games of Round 2.2 with the game links to the official website. Enjoy. Don't forget to tune in for the high-definition live broadcast of all the action from the World Cup of Chess tomorrow also.
Round 4.2
1 1−1 Dominguez P, Leinier (CUB) 0−1 Polgar, Judit (HUN) View 2 1−1 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR)½-½ Bu, Xiangzhi (CHN) View
3 2−0 Navara, David (CZE)1−0 Zherebukh, Yaroslav (UKR) View 4 1−1 Ponomariov, R (UKR)½-½ Bruzon B, Lazaro (CUB) View
5 1−1 Nielsen, Peter H (DEN)1−0 Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) View
6 1−1 Grischuk, Alexander (RUS)1−0 Potkin, Vladimir (RUS) View 7 0.5−1.5 Jakovenko, D (RUS)½-½ Radjabov, T (AZE) View
8 0−2 Kamsky, Gata (USA)0−1 Svidler, Peter (RUS) View
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Nice chess fair play show by Navara, Moiseenko at World Cup of Chess
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
In these times of cheating in chess, there's been a fair play show! Chessdom has carried a nice story about David Navara (Czech Republic) and Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine). Navara was on the verge of converting a decisive material advantage (Queen vs Rook) against Moiseenko.
It was inevitable for the advantage or checkmate would follow if the latter tried to save the situation... and Navara offered draw. This is what both the grandmasters have to say.
David Navara: – On the 35th move I accidentally touched both pieces, the King and the Bishop. I wanted to move my bishop on d6, but clipped the King also, however, Moiseenko claims that I have first touched the King, but I am not sure about that. Any move with the King would lead to the loss of the piece, however, Moiseenko did not insist that I make a move according to the touch rule. I did not want to be referred to as an unethical chess player who managed to win in an unfair way, that is why at the end, having achieved the winning position, I offered a draw.
Alexander Moiseenko: – Navara on the 35th move first touched the King. I told him: the King moves. However, I realized that my opponent accidentally made this mistake, it is not possible that he could so easily blunder the piece. This is the reason I did not insist on his move with the King.
Let us remind you that if you are knocked out in the 3rd round you get 12800 dollars, and the qualification for the 4th one guarantees you the minimum prize of 20 000 dollars. Besides, the winner of this match will continue fighting for three tickets to the World Championship.
The extraordinary situation was commented by Chessdom expert – Grandmaster Sergey Shipov:
- I think that both opponents acted in an extremely honorable way. Today, in these difficult times, our heroes are risking the qualification to the next round, which means jeopardizing serious money for the sake of preserving their reputation.
This story came to knowledge of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra Governor. Natalia Komarova declared on her decision to establish a special prize of the World Cup – 'Fair play':
- No doubt that the whole world will highly appreciate the mutually noble deed of the Ukrainian and Czech chess players. We go for nobility, at the chess board as well as in the everyday life.
- I am very proud of both sportsmen who acted in accordance with FIDE motto: Gens Una Sumus, – summed up
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World Chess Cup 3.2: Judit knocks out top seed Karjakin
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011Hi everyone,
It's happened - the strongest chess woman in the world has knocked out the top seed at the World Cup of Chess currently on in Khanty Mansisyk. Here are the results and game links for Round 3.2 of the event. In blue are the players who move on to Round 4 and in Red are the players who clash in tiebreaks on Monday. Also knocked out are Tomashevsky, Morozevich, Bacrot, Jobava and Gupta.
1 0.5−1.5 Karjakin, Sergey (RUS) ½-½ Polgar, Judit (HUN) View
2 1−1 Sutovsky, Emil (ISR) 0−1 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) View
3 1−1 Mamedyarov, S (AZE) ½-½ Zherebukh, Y (UKR) View
4 1−1 Efimenko, Zahar (UKR) ½-½ Ponomariov, R (UKR) View
5 1.5−0.5 Gashimov, V (AZE) 1−0 Tomashevsky, E (RUS) View
6 0.5−1.5 Morozevich, A(RUS) ½-½ Grischuk, A (RUS) View
7 1.5−0.5 Radjabov, T (AZE) 1−0 Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) View
8 1−1 Nepomniachtchi, Ian (RUS) 1−0 Kamsky, Gata (USA) View
9 1−1 Svidler, Peter (RUS) ½-½ Caruana, Fabiano (ITA) View
10 0−2 Jobava, Baadur (GEO) 0−1 Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) View
11 1−1 Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) ½-½ Potkin, Vladimir (RUS) View
12 1−1 Nielsen, P (DEN) ½-½ Parligras, Emilian (ROU) View
13 1−1 Bruzon Batista, L (CUB) ½-½ Le, Quang Liem (VIE) View
14 1−1 Moiseenko, Alexander (UKR) ½-½ Navara, D (CZE) View
15 1.5−0.5 Bu, Xiangzhi (CHN) 1−0 Gupta, Abhijeet (IND) View
16 1−1 Lysyj, Igor (RUS) 1−0 Dominguez P (CUB) View
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World Chess Cup R2 tiebreaks: Adams, Pons, Maxime eliminated among others
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
We have the updated chess results from the World Cup of Chess 2011 currently on in Ugra region of Khanty Mansiysk. The tiebreaks were held on Friday and here are the results. You can see all the tiebreak games at the official website. (In bold are the players who go through to Round 3).
- Karjakin, Sergey (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5
- So, Wesley (PHI) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5
- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5
- Fridman, Daniel (GER) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5
- Feller, Sebastien (FRA) ½ ½ 0 0 1
- Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) ½ ½ 1 1 3
- Vallejo Pons, Francisco (ESP) 0 1 ½ 0 1.5
- Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB) 1 0 ½ 1 2.5
- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5
- Bu, Xiangzhi (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5
- Ivanov, Alexander (USA) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5
- Lysyj, Igor (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5
- Moiseenko, Alexander (UKR) ½ ½ 1 1 3
- Inarkiev, Ernesto (RUS) ½ ½ 0 0 1
- Adams, Michael (ENG) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5
- Nielsen, Peter Heine (DEN) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5
- Nepomniachtchi, Ian (RUS) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5
- Riazantsev, Alexander (RUS) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5
- Filippov, Anton (UZB) 1 0 0 0 1
- Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) 0 1 1 1 3
- Zherebukh, Yaroslav (UKR) 1 0 1 1 3
- Felgaer, Ruben (ARG) 0 1 0 0 1
- Svidler, Peter (RUS) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 4
- Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son (VIE) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 2
- Ni, Hua (CHN) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 2.5
- Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 3.5
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World Cup of Chess R2.2: Almasi, Shirov and others knocked out
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
More chess news from the World Cup of Chess 2011 in Khanty Mansiysk. Today - Thursday - was Round 2.2 and we had some knockouts. Here are the results.
Round 2.2 results with match score on left. You can use the view link to see the game on the official website. In Blue are the players who move on to Round 3. In Red are the players who play the tiebreaks on Friday.
1.1−1 So, Wesley (PHI)½-½ Karjakin, Sergey (RUS) View
2 1.5−0.5 Ivanchuk, V (UKR)½-½ Alekseev, Evgeny (RUS) View
3 1−1 Fridman, Daniel (GER)½-½ Mamedyarov, S (AZE) View
4 1−1 Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR)½-½ Ni, Hua (CHN) View
5 0.5−1.5 Azarov, Sergei (BLR)½-½ Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) View 6 1−1 Grischuk, Alexander (RUS)½-½ Feller, S (FRA) View
7 0.5−1.5 Negi, P (IND)½-½ Radjabov, Teimour (AZE) View
8 1.5−0.5 Kamsky, Gata (USA)1−0 Kasimdzhanov, R(UZB) View
9 1−1 Nguyen, Ngoc TS (VIE)½-½ Svidler, Peter (RUS) View
10 1.5−0.5 Jakovenko, D (RUS)½-½ Harikrishna, P. (IND) View
11 0.5−1.5 Korobov, A (UKR)½-½ Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) View
12 0.5−1.5 Almasi, Z (HUN)½-½ Parligras, M-E (ROU) View
13 1−1 Bruzon, Lazaro (CUB)0−1 Vallejo Pons, F (ESP) View
14 1.5−0.5 Navara, David (CZE)1−0 Onischuk, A (USA) View
15 1−1 Bu, Xiangzhi (CHN)½-½ Vachier-Lagrave, M (FRA) View
16 1.5−0.5 Dominguez P, L (CUB)½-½ Bologan, V (MDA) View
17 1−1 Lysyj, Igor (RUS)½-½ Ivanov, Alexander (USA) View
18 0.5−1.5 Shankland, S L (USA)0−1 Gupta, Abhijeet (IND) View
19 1−1 Inarkiev, E (RUS)½-½ Moiseenko, A (UKR) View
20 1.5−0.5 Le, Quang Liem (VIE)½-½ Grachev, Boris (RUS) View 21 1−1 Nielsen, Peter H (DEN)½-½ Adams, Michael (ENG) View 22 0−2 Shirov, Alexei (ESP)0−1 Potkin, Vladimir (RUS) View
23 0.5−1.5 Wojtaszek, R (POL)0−1 Jobava, Baadur (GEO) View 24 1.5−0.5 Caruana, F (ITA)1−0 Drozdovskij, Y (UKR) View
25 1−1 Riazantsev, A (RUS)½-½ Nepomniachtchi, Ian (RUS) View
26 1−1 Bacrot, Etienne (FRA)1−0 Filippov, Anton (UZB) View
27 2−0 Morozevich, Alexander (RUS)1−0 Fier, A (BRA) View
28 1.5−0.5 Tomashevsky, E (RUS)½-½ Andreikin, D (RUS) View
29 0.5−1.5 Berkes, F (HUN)0−1 Efimenko, Zahar (UKR) View
30 1−1 Felgaer, Ruben (ARG)1−0 Zherebukh, Y (UKR) View
31 0.5−1.5 Fressinet, L (FRA)½-½ Sutovsky, Emil (ISR) View
32 0.5−1.5 Movsesian, S (ARM)0−1 Polgar, Judit (HUN) View
The 2011 FIDE World Cup is a 128-player knock-out taking place August 27-September 20 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia. The tournament delivers three participants for the next Candidates tournament/matches, as part of the new World Championship cycle. Except for the final, all rounds have 2-game matches at the FIDE time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes to finish the game, with a 30-second increment from the first move. In case of a 1-1 tie, on the third day of the round there’s a tie-break with rapid games and if necessary blitz games and an Armageddon.
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World Cup of Chess first round pairings updated
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
Fide has announced the first round pairings for the World Cup of Chess 2011. It is a knockout event. You can access the complete list at this Fide link and the official website of the event at this link. The World Cup of Chess, as you must have already read, will take place in Khanty-Mansiysk from August 26 to September 21.
Fide has issued a revised pairing list on Friday. As reported earlier, Hou Yifan and Judit Polgar are no longer paired to play each other in the first round. You can check the new list now.
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Fide announces list of qualifiers for World Cup of Chess in Khanty-Mansiysk 2011
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
FIDE has announcing the list of qualifiers for the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk which is supposed to take place from August 26 (arrival) to September 21 2011 (departure). The players have to sign their contracts and send them to Fide. The list so far is as follows:
a) From World Championship Match 2010:
01. V. Anand (IND)
b) From World Cup 2009:
02. B. Gelfand (ISR)
03. R. Ponomariov (UKR)
04. V. Malakhov (RUS)
05. S. Karjakin (RUS)
c) Women's World Champion 2010:
06. Hou Yifan (CHN)
d) Junior World Champions 2009 & 2010:
07. M. Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)
08. D. Andreikin (RUS)
e) From FIDE Rating List, 20 players, average 7/2010 & 1/2011:
09. M. Carlsen (NOR) 2820,00
10. L. Aronian (ARM) 2805,00
11. V. Topalov (BUL) 2789,00
12. V. Kramnik (RUS) 2787,00
13. A. Grischuk (RUS) 2766,50
14. S. Mamedyarov (AZE) 2766,50
15. V. Ivanchuk (UKR) 2751,50
16. T. Radjabov (AZE) 2746,00
17. H. Nakamura (USA) 2740,00
18. P. Eljanov (UKR) 2739,50
19. A. Shirov (ESP) 2735,50
20. P. Svidler (RUS) 2732,00
21. V. Gashimov (AZE) 2727,50
22. Wang Hao (CHN) 2727,50
23. P. Leko (HUN) 2725,50
24. Wang Yue (CHN) 2725,00
25. D. Jakovenko (RUS) 2722,00
26. G. Kamsky (USA) 2721,50
27. E. Bacrot (FRA) 2721,50
28. D. Navara (CZE) 2719,50
f) 46 players from European Championships 2010 & 2011
29. I. Nepomniachtchi (RUS) 2010
30. B. Jobava (GEO) 2010
31. A. Timofeev (RUS) 2010
32. Z. Efimenko (UKR) 2010
33. I. Lysyj (RUS) 2010
34. Z. Almasi (HUN) 2010
35. E. Tomashevsky (RUS) 2010
36. M. Rodshtein (ISR) 2010
37. I. Salgado Lopez (ESP) 2010
38. A. Pashikian (ARM) 2010
39. R. Mamedov (AZE) 2010
40. S. Movsesian (ARM) 2010
41. V. Akopian (ARM) 2010
42. E. Alekseev (RUS) 2010
43. S. Halkias (GRE) 2010
44. F. Berkes (HUN) 2010
45. V. Potkin (RUS) 2010
46. B. Grachev (RUS) 2010
47. B. Socko (POL) 2010
48. L. Nisipeanu (ROU) 2010
49. E. Vorobiov (RUS) 2010
50. Y. Drozdovskij (UKR) 2010
51. V. Babula (CZE) 2010
52. R. Wojtaszek (POL) 2011
53. J. Polgar (HUN) 2011
54. A. Moiseenko (UKR) 2011
55. F. Vallejo Pons (ESP) 2011
56. M. Ragger (AUT) 2011
57. S. Feller (FRA) 2011
58. N. Vitiugov (RUS) 2011
59. S. Zhigalko (BLR) 2011
60. A. Korobov (UKR) 2011
61. E. Inarkiev (RUS) 2011
62. E. Postny (ISR) 2011
63. S. Azarov (BLR) 2011
64. I. Khairullin (RUS) 2011
65. M. Kobalia (RUS) 2011
66. N. Guliyev (AZE) 2011
67. Y. Zherebukh (UKR) 2011
68. A. Riazantsev (RUS) 2011
69. V. Iordachescu (MDA) 2011
70. C. Lupulescu (ROU) 2011
71. L. McShane (ENG) 2011
72. D. Fridman (GER) 2011
73. A. Motylev (RUS) 2011
74. I. Ivanisevic (SRB) 2011
g) 19 players from Americas
75. R. Felgaer (ARG) Zonal 2.5
76. S. Mareco (ARG) Zonal 2.5
77. Y. Shulman (USA) Zonal 2.1
78. S. Shankland (USA) Zonal 2.1
79. R. Hess (USA) Zonal 2.1
80. R. Robson (USA) Zonal 2.1
81. A. Onischuk (USA) Zonal 2.1
82. (…to be announced…) Zonal 2.4
83. (…to be announced…) Zonal 2.4
84. L. Dominguez (CUB) Zonal 2.3
85. L. Bruzon (CUB) Zonal 2.3
86. E. Hansen (CAN) Zonal 2.2
87. S. A. Sanabria Rangel (COL) Continental 2010
88. M. Bluvshtein (CAN) Continental 2011
89. G. Vescovi (BRA) Continental 2011
90. Y. Quesada Perez (CUB) Continental 2011
91. J. Cori (PER) Continental 2011
92. F. Corrales Jimenez (CUB) Continental 2011
93. I. R. Ortiz Suarez (CUB) Continental 2011
h) 19 players from Asia/Oceania
94. Ni Hua (CHN) Continental 2010
95. A. Gupta (IND) Continental 2010
96. Le Quang Liem (VIE) Continental 2010
97. Wesley So (PHI) Continental 2010
98. Zhou, Jianchao (CHN) Continental 2010
99. P. Harikrishna (IND) Continental 2011
100. Yu Yangyi (CHN) Continental 2011
101. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (VIE) Continental 2011
102. R. Jumabayev (KAZ) Continental 2011
103. Li Chao B (CHN) Zonal 3.5
104. Bu Xiangzhi (CHN) Zonal 3.5
105. Zhao Zong-Yuan (AUS) Zonal 3.6
106. Ziaur Rahman (BAN) Zonal 3.2
107. S. Megaranto (INA) Zonal 3.3
108. M. Paragua (PHI) Zonal 3.3
109. P. Negi (IND) Zonal 3.7
110. (…to be announced…)
111. (…to be announced…)
112. (…to be announced…)
i) 6 players from Africa
113. M. Kaabi (TUN) Zonal 4.1
114. H. Ibrahim (EGY) Zonal 4.2
115. R. Gwaze (ZIM) Zonal 4.3
116. (…to be announced…)
117. (…to be announced…)
118. (…to be announced…)
j) 6 nominees of the FIDE President
119. (…to be announced…)
120. (…to be announced…)
121. (…to be announced…)
122. (…to be announced…)
123. (…to be announced…)
124. (…to be announced…)
k) 4 nominees of the local Organising Committee
125. (…to be announced…)
126. (…to be announced…)
127. (…to be announced…)
128. (…to be announced…)
Total = 128 players
The pairings of the 1st round will be announced one month before the start of the event. The schedule of the World Cup 2011:
26 August: Arrivals
27 August: Opening Ceremony / Players Meeting
28 August: Round 1 - Game 1
29 August: Round 1 - Game 2
30 August: Tiebreaks
31 August: Round 2 - Game 1
01 September: Round 2 - Game 2
02 September: Tiebreaks
03 September: Round 3 - Game 1
04 September: Round 3 - Game 2
05 September: Tiebreaks
06 September: Round 4 - Game 1
07 September: Round 4 - Game 2
08 September: Tiebreaks
09 September: Round 5 - Game 1
10 September: Round 5 - Game 2
11 September: Tiebreaks
12 September: Round 6 - Game 1
13 September: Round 6 - Game 2
14 September: Tiebreaks
15 September: Free Day
16 September: Round 7 - Game 1
17 September: Round 7 - Game 2
18 September: Round 7 - Game 3
19 September: Round 7 - Game 4
20 September: Tiebreaks / Closing Ceremony
21 September: Departures
Stay tuned for more updates!
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Three more Cuban chess players qualify for World Cup of Chess
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everybody,
This is chess news from Cuba where players are going from strength to strength in our wonderful sport. Cuban grandmasters (GMs) Yuniesky Quesada and Fidel Corrales as well as International Master (IM) Isam Ortiz have qualified for the upcoming World Cup of Chess after their participation in the Continental Championship of the Americas that concluded on Sunday in Toluca, Mexico. . Quesada, Corrales and Ortiz thus joined Bruzon and GM Leinier Dominguez, who also secured a berth in the world competition during a regional qualifying tournament held last month in Santiago de los Caballeros, the Dominican Republic. Bruzon won the contest in Toluca with 7.5 units out of nine possible.
The World Cup of Chess is scheduled for Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, from August 26 to September 21 later this year.
Here is our earlier post about the Cuban grandmasters. Stay tuned for more updates.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk'sAlso see her personal blog at Labels: chess blog, cuba, Khanty-Mansiysk, World Cup of Chess
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