Round 2 of the World Chess Cup 2011 starts today at 11:00 CET. After the first round and consecutive tiebreak 64 players are left in the race in Khanty Mansiysk. Here are the full pairings of round 2. You can follow live grandmaster commentary by GM Naiditsch, GM Maze, and GM Ipatov on the main page of Chessdom.com, and computer analysis on the live games platform.
| Sergey Karjakin | – | Wesley So | |
| Sergei Movsesian | – | Judit Polgar | |
| Leinier Dominguez | – | Viktor Bologan | |
| Alexander Ivanov | – | Igor Lysyj | |
| Gata Kamsky | – | Rustam Kasimdzhanov | |
| Ian Nepomniachtchi | – | Alexander Riazantsev | |
| Peter Svidler | – | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | |
| Fabiano Caruana | – | Yuri Drozdovskij | |
| Ruslan Ponomariov | – | Ni Hua | |
| Zahar Efimenko | – | Ferenc Berkes | |
| Francisco Vallejo Pons | – | Lazaro Bruzon | |
| Le Quang Liem | – | Boris Grachev | |
| Vugar Gashimov | – | Sergei Azarov | |
| Evgeny Tomashevsky | – | Dmitry Andreikin | |
| Zoltan Almasi | – | Mircea Parligras | |
| Michael Adams | – | Peter Heine Nielsen | |
| Vassily Ivanchuk | – | Evgeny Alekseev | |
| Emil Sutovsky | – | Laurent Fressinet | |
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | – | Bu Xiangzhi | |
| Samuel Shankland | – | Abhijeet Gupta | |
| Teimour Radjabov | – | Parimarjan Negi | |
| Etienne Bacrot | – | Anton Filippov | |
| Dmitry Jakovenko | – | Pendyala Harikrishna | |
| Baadur Jobava | – | Radoslaw Wojtaszek | |
| Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | – | Daniel Fridman | |
| Ruben Felgaer | – | Yaroslav Zherebukh | |
| David Navara | – | Alexander Onischuk | |
| Alexander Moiseenko | – | Ernesto Inarkiev | |
| Alexander Grischuk | – | Sebastien Feller | |
| Alexandr Fier | – | Alexander Morozevich | |
| Nikita Vitiugov | – | Anton Korobov | |
| Alexei Shirov | – | Vladimir Potkin | |
