Sunday, September 4, 2011

Wesley So Knocked Out In Round 2!

4 September 2011, Kuala Lumpur – At the FIDE World Cup, GM Wesley So of the Philippines went down to GM Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine. Chess.com reported that the second round of the 2011 Chess World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia has been completed following the tie-break games played today.

The biggest casualties were #13 seed Francisco Vallejo Pons, #15 seed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and #21 seed Michael Adams.

Unlike the first round, none of the tie-breaks went to blitz games this time.  In fact, only 2 matches went beyond the first pair of rapid games.  Those matches saw #4 seed Ruslan Ponomariov and #9 seed Peter Svidler safely through.

Top seed Sergey Karjakin put an end to Wesley So's competition, and set up a fascinating clash with Judit Polgar in round three.

Pix 1. Wesley So played against Sergey Karjakin in Round 2, FIDE World Cup 2011. (Picture courtesy of Chess.com)

Wesley So knocked out by Sergey Karjakin of Round 2, FIDE World Cup 2011

 

The full tie-break match results:

Name G1 G2 R1 R2 r3 r4 B1 B2 SD Tot
Round 2 Match 01









Karjakin, Sergey (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1




2.5
So, Wesley (PHI) ½ ½ ½ 0




1.5
Round 2 Match 03









Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE) ½ ½ 1 ½




2.5
Fridman, Daniel (GER) ½ ½ 0 ½




1.5
Round 2 Match 04









Ni, Hua (CHN) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½


2.5
Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½


3.5
Round 2 Match 06









Feller, Sebastien (FRA) ½ ½ 0 0




1
Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) ½ ½ 1 1




3
Round 2 Match 09









Svidler, Peter (RUS) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1


4
Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son (VIE) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0


2
Round 2 Match 13









Vallejo Pons, Francisco (ESP) 0 1 ½ 0




1.5
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro (CUB) 1 0 ½ 1




2.5
Round 2 Match 15









Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA) ½ ½ ½ 0




1.5
Bu, Xiangzhi (CHN) ½ ½ ½ 1




2.5
Round 2 Match 17









Ivanov, Alexander (USA) ½ ½ ½ 0




1.5
Lysyj, Igor (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1




2.5
Round 2 Match 19









Moiseenko, Alexander (UKR) ½ ½ 1 1




3
Inarkiev, Ernesto (RUS) ½ ½ 0 0




1
Round 2 Match 21









Adams, Michael (ENG) ½ ½ ½ 0




1.5
Nielsen, Peter Heine (DEN) ½ ½ ½ 1




2.5
Round 2 Match 25









Nepomniachtchi, Ian (RUS) ½ ½ 1 ½




2.5
Riazantsev, Alexander (RUS) ½ ½ 0 ½




1.5
Round 2 Match 26









Filippov, Anton (UZB) 1 0 0 0




1
Bacrot, Etienne (FRA) 0 1 1 1




3
Round 2 Match 30









Zherebukh, Yaroslav (UKR) 1 0 1 1




3
Felgaer, Ruben (ARG) 0 1 0 0




1

 

The winner, runner-up and third placed player in the World Cup will qualify for the Candidates tournament to determine a challenger for the winner of the Anand v Gelfand world championship match next year.

Each round starts at 15:00 local time (09:00 UTC).  The schedule:

Round Regular games Tiebreaks Players
1 28–29 Aug 30-Aug 128
2 31 Aug–1 Sept 02-Sep 64
3 3–4 Sept 05-Sep 32
4 6-7 Sept 08-Sep 16
Q-Final 9–10 Sept 11-Sep 8
Semi-Final 12–13 Sept 14-Sep 4
Final 16–19 Sept 20-Sep 2

 

The time control for the regular games is 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 second increment from the start.

Rapid games are at 25 minutes plus 10 second increment, and if scores are still level then 10 minutes plus 10 second increment, 5 minutes plus 3 second increment, and finally sudden-death 5 min v 4 min with a 3 second increment after move 60.

The official website with live coverage and commentary in Russian and English is here.

To read more, please visit this link here.

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