pairings tree
Here are the pairings of the World Chess Cup for Round 2. They will be complete after the tiebreaks of round 1 are over. For now the possible participants are listed with an “OR” between them.
These pairings also show the possible pairings for round 3 of the World Cup, as the winner of 1. plays with the winner of 2., the winner of 3. plays with the winner of 4., etc………. the winner of 31. plays with the winner of 32.
Round 1 game 1 – results and replayable games
Round 1 game 2 – results
1. Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) – Bartel, Mateusz (POL) OR Galkin, Alexander (RUS)
2. Harikrishna, P. (IND) OR Zhao, Jun (CHN) – Amin, Bassem (EGY) OR Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter (ROU)
3. Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) – Akobian, Varuzhan (USA) OR Roiz, Michael (ISR)
4. Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) – Zhang, Pengxiang (CHN) OR Gagunashvili, Merab (GEO)
5. Alekseev, Evgeny (RUS) OR Ismagambetov, Anuar (KAZ) – Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) OR Sakaev, Konstantin (RUS)
6. Fressinet, Laurent (FRA) – Nevednichy, Vladislav (ROU)
7. Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) – Najer, Evgeniy (RUS)
8. Bareev, Evgeny (RUS) – Van Wely, Loek (NED) OR Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son (VIE)
9. Aronian, Levon (ARM) – Gustafsson, Jan (GER)
10. Inarkiev, Ernesto (RUS) – Vallejo Pons, Francisco (ESP)
11. Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) – Khalifman, Alexander (RUS) OR Belov, Vladimir (RUS)
12. Almasi, Zoltan (HUN) – Socko, Bartosz (POL)
13. Shirov, Alexei (ESP) – Shulman, Yuri (USA) OR Leitao, Rafael (BRA)
14. Nikolic, Predrag (BIH) – Onischuk, Alexander (USA) OR Andriasian, Zaven (ARM)
15. Akopian, Vladimir (ARM) OR Filippov, Anton (UZB) – Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan
16. Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) – Volkov, Sergey (RUS)
17. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) – Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB) OR Kozul, Zdenko (CRO)
18. Cheparinov, Ivan (BUL) – Tkachiev, Vladislav (FRA)
19. Wang, Yue (CHN) – Tiviakov, Sergei (NED)
20. Motylev, Alexander (RUS) – Bu, Xiangzhi (CHN)
21. Adams, Michael (ENG) – Gurevich, Mikhail (TUR) OR Kaidanov, Gregory S (USA)
22. Volokitin, Andrei (UKR) – Zhou, Jianchao (CHN)
23. Carlsen, Magnus (NOR) – Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER)
24. Dominguez Perez, Lenier (CUB) – Short, Nigel D (ENG) OR Baramidze, David (GER)
25. Radjabov, Teimour (AZE) – Macieja, Bartlomiej (POL)
26. Zvjaginsev, Vadim (RUS) OR Kunte, Abhijit (IND) – Zhigalko, Sergei (BLR) OR Sasikiran, Krishnan (IND)
27. Wang, Hao (CHN) – Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) OR El Gindy, Essam (EGY)
28. Hossain Enamul (BAN) – Tomashevsky, Evgeny (RUS) OR Mamedov, Rauf (AZE)
29. Svidler, Peter (RUS) – Pavasovic, Dusko (SLO)
30. Rublevsky, Sergei (RUS) – Navara, David (CZE)
31. Kamsky, Gata (USA) – Avrukh, Boris (ISR) OR Milos, Gilberto (BRA)
32. Georgiev, Kiril (BUL) – Kasimdzhanov, Rustam (UZB) OR Gopal, G.N. (IND)
