World Chess Cup 2011 round 3 starts today
The World Cup round 3 starts today in Khanty Mansiysk with 32 players left. The rating favorite Sergey Karjakin will meet the last standing man (woman) of Hungary Judit Polgar. The Vietnam prodigy Le Quang Liem is playing against the solid Cuban Lazaro Bruzon. Both games are going to be with Grandmaster commentary on Chessdom.com.
In other interesting encounters the only Indian Abhijeet Gupta will meet the only Chinese Bu Xiangzhi, Gata Kamsky will defend the honor of USA against Ian Nepomniachtchi, the Italian Fabiano Caruana will have a difficult task against Peter Svidler, while Bacrot – Radjabov and Grischuk – Morozevich are the highlight 2700 clashes of the day. Full pairings below.
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World Cup round 3 pairings
| Sergey Karjakin | – | Judit Polgar |
| Leinier Dominguez | – | Igor Lysyj |
| Gata Kamsky | – | Ian Nepomniachtchi |
| Peter Svidler | – | Fabiano Caruana |
| Ruslan Ponomariov | – | Zahar Efimenko |
| Lazaro Bruzon | – | Le Quang Liem |
| Vugar Gashimov | – | Evgeny Tomashevsky |
| Mircea Parligras | – | Peter Heine Nielsen |
| Vassily Ivanchuk | – | Emil Sutovsky |
| Bu Xiangzhi | – | Abhijeet Gupta |
| Teimour Radjabov | – | Etienne Bacrot |
| Dmitry Jakovenko | – | Baadur Jobava |
| Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | – | Yaroslav Zherebukh |
| David Navara | – | Alexander Moiseenko |
| Alexander Grischuk | – | Alexander Morozevich |
| Nikita Vitiugov | – | Vladimir Potkin |
