The first games of the opening round started in Tromso after Commissioner for Business, Culture and Sports of Tromso Municipality, Mr. Jonas Stein, made the first symbolic move in the Aronian-Markov game.
The first game of Round 1 of the World Chess Cup 2013 has been played in Tromso, Norway. The first day was marked by strong security measures, interesting games with a few surprises, and a minute of silence for GM Kurnosov.
Photos opening ceremony (part 1) / Photos first day (part 1) / Photos round 1
The favorites in the higher half of the draw met significantly lower rated opponents. The top seeds won their games relatively easily, but there were also a few surprises like the loss by Super GM Alexander Morozevich against Canadian GM Bator Sambuev. The American player GM Ray Robson won a beautiful game against the higher rated opponent GM Andrey Volokitin. GM Gata Kamsky and GM Michael Adams drew against Chinese players Lou Yiping and Wan Yunguo respectively, while the Chinese derby between Wang Hao and Liu Qingnan also finished in a draw. Playing with Black former Women’s World Champion Hou Yifan drew against GM Alexey Shirov.
Scroll down for the full table of results of round 1 and replay the games here
The first games of the opening round started in Tromso after Commissioner for Business, Culture and Sports of Tromso Municipality, Mr. Jonas Stein, made the first symbolic move in the Aronian-Markov game.
Because of the 15-minute delay before the first game the players got an opportunity to
speak with their chess friends.
GM Salem Saleh and Yahya Saleh from the UAE Chess Federation.
Before the round the players stood up for a moment of silence in memory of the
recently passed Russian GM Igor Kurnosov.
Current European Champion GM Alexander Moiseenko had a rest day today. His
opponent GM Adly Ahmed from Egypt was prevented from playing in the FIDE World Cup
due to obligatory service in the Egyptian Army.
Sofia Rules are not in force at the tournament so it’s up
to the players to decide when they want to offer a draw.
The first game to finish was Zvjagintsev-Swiercz, 12 moves.
Four women are taking part in the FIDE World Cup in Tromso: Judit Polgar,
Hou Yifan, Anna Ushenina and Deysi Cori. Former Women’s World Champion
Hou Yifan managed to make a draw against GM Alexei Shirov, while the others lost their games.
Susan Polgar and Lawrence Trent working for the live coverage of the FIDE World Cup 2013.
Former Women’s World Champion Susan Polgar and current Women’s World Champion
Anna Ushenina at the press conference.
World Chess Cup 2013 round 1 results
| MATCH NO. | PLAYER | FED | RTG | RESULT | PLAYER | FED | RTG |
| 1 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2813 | 1 – 0 | Markov, Mikhail | KGZ | 2304 |
| 2 | G., Akash | IND | 2340 | 0 – 1 | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2796 |
| 3 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2784 | 1 – 0 | Bwalya, Gillan | ZAM | 2341 |
| 4 | Bjelobrk, Igor | AUS | 2341 | 0 – 1 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2785 |
| 5 | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2772 | 1 – 0 | Ali, Sebbar | MAR | 2371 |
| 6 | Cori T., Deysi | PER | 2434 | 0 – 1 | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2772 |
| 7 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2764 | 1 – 0 | Rahman, Ziaur | BAN | 2470 |
| 8 | Lou, Yiping | CHN | 2484 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2741 |
| 9 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2775 | 1 – 0 | Shoker, Samy | EGY | 2489 |
| 10 | El Gindy, Essam | EGY | 2487 | 0 – 1 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2757 |
| 11 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2756 | 1 – 0 | Hansen, Torbjorn Ringdal | NOR | 2492 |
| 12 | Liu, Qingnan | CHN | 2500 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Wang, Hao | CHN | 2747 |
| 13 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2746 | 1 – 0 | Ushenina, Anna | UKR | 2500 |
| 14 | Wan, Yunguo | CHN | 2512 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2740 |
| 15 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2744 | 1 – 0 | Johannessen, Leif Erlend | NOR | 2519 |
| 16 | Sambuev, Bator | CAN | 2524 | 1 – 0 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2739 |
| 17 | Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2719 | 1 – 0 | Holt, Conrad | USA | 2539 |
| 18 | Salem, A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2556 | 0 – 1 | Giri, Anish | NED | 2737 |
| 19 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2731 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Duda, Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2534 |
| 20 | Cori, Jorge | PER | 2569 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2733 |
| 21 | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2716 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Darini, Pouria | IRI | 2535 |
| 22 | Durarbayli, Vasif | AZE | 2567 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Korobov, Anton | UKR | 2720 |
| 23 | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2719 | 1 – 0 | Shabalov, Alexander | USA | 2546 |
| 24 | Wei, Yi | CHN | 2551 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2723 |
| 25 | Navara, David | CZE | 2715 | 1 – 0 | Mareco, Sandro | ARG | 2561 |
| 26 | Agdestein, Simen | NOR | 2567 | 0 – 1 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2714 |
| 27 | Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2710 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Adhiban, B. | IND | 2567 |
| 28 | Paragua, Mark | PHI | 2565 | 0 – 1 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2724 |
| 29 | Le, Quang Liem | VIE | 2702 | 1 – 0 | Barbosa, Oliver | PHI | 2571 |
| 30 | Kaidanov, Gregory S | USA | 2574 | 0 – 1 | Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2709 |
| 31 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2707 | 1 – 0 | Hansen, Eric | CAN | 2584 |
| 32 | Ramirez, Alejandro | USA | 2588 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | RUS | 2706 |
| 33 | So, Wesley | PHI | 2710 | 1 – 0 | Ipatov, Alexander | TUR | 2584 |
| 34 | Christiansen, Larry M | USA | 2584 | 0 – 1 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2708 |
| 35 | Riazantsev, Alexander | RUS | 2700 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Felgaer, Ruben | ARG | 2586 |
| 36 | Flores, Diego | ARG | 2578 | 0 – 1 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2706 |
| 37 | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2702 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Brunello, Sabino | ITA | 2607 |
| 38 | Fier, Alexandr | BRA | 2595 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | POL | 2701 |
| 39 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | 2699 | 1 – 0 w/o | Adly, Ahmed | EGY | 2594 |
| 40 | Hammer, Jon Ludvig | NOR | 2605 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Movsesian, Sergei | ARM | 2699 |
| 41 | Shirov, Alexei | LAT | 2696 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2609 |
| 42 | Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo | CUB | 2609 | 1 – 0 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2696 |
| 43 | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2696 | 1 – 0 | Kravtsiv, Martyn | UKR | 2607 |
| 44 | Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son | VIE | 2625 | 1 – 0 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2691 |
| 45 | Bruzon Batista, Lazaro | CUB | 2698 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Najer, Evgeniy | RUS | 2626 |
| 46 | Robson, Ray | USA | 2623 | 1 – 0 | Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2688 |
| 47 | Li, Chao b | CHN | 2693 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Postny, Evgeny | ISR | 2628 |
| 48 | Popov, Ivan | RUS | 2644 | 1 – 0 | Ragger, Markus | AUT | 2680 |
| 49 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2693 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Leitao, Rafael | BRA | 2632 |
| 50 | Melkumyan, Hrant | ARM | 2632 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Granda Zuniga, Julio E | PER | 2664 |
| 51 | Kryvoruchko, Yuriy | UKR | 2678 | 0 – 1 | Negi, Parimarjan | IND | 2643 |
| 52 | Hracek, Zbynek | CZE | 2635 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Bologan, Viktor | MDA | 2672 |
| 53 | Dreev, Aleksey | RUS | 2668 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Azarov, Sergei | BLR | 2636 |
| 54 | Dubov, Daniil | RUS | 2624 | 1 – 0 | Fedorchuk, Sergey A. | UKR | 2669 |
| 55 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2667 | 1 – 0 | Iturrizaga, Eduardo | VEN | 2660 |
| 56 | Smeets, Jan | NED | 2623 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Matlakov, Maxim | RUS | 2676 |
| 57 | Shimanov, Aleksandr | RUS | 2655 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Jones, Gawain C B | ENG | 2645 |
| 58 | Filippov, Anton | UZB | 2630 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Romanov, Evgeny | RUS | 2651 |
| 59 | Safarli, Eltaj | AZE | 2660 | 0 – 1 | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2652 |
| 60 | Lupulescu, Constantin | ROU | 2634 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2660 |
| 61 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2659 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Swiercz, Dariusz | POL | 2654 |
| 62 | Kobalia, Mikhail | RUS | 2651 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2653 |
| 63 | Yu, Yangyi | CHN | 2662 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Beliavsky, Alexander G | SLO | 2651 |
| 64 | Istratescu, Andrei | FRA | 2646 | 0 – 1 | Lysyj, Igor | RUS | 2648 |
Today is the second game of round 1. The time control for each two-game match is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. If the score is equal there are two rapid chess tiebreak games, played at a rate of 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds per move. If the score is still equal then two accelerated games will be played, with a time control of 10 min + 10 sec. If the score is still equal two more games will be played at 5 min + 3 sec. If the winner is still not determined then a final Armageddon game with 5 minutes for White and 4 minutes for Black, with a 3 sec increment after move 60, will be played. In this game Black has draw odds (i.e. he wins if the game is drawn).
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