Peter Leko And Wang Yue Exit World Cup

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Updated: Aug 30, 2011, 12:48 AM | 26 | Chess Event Coverage

The second, and last, of the regular games in the first round of the 2011 World Cup took place today in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

Peter Leko went for broke after losing his first game yesterday to Sam Shankland, trying the Benoni defence. But there was to be no comeback for the 18th seed, and Shankland accepted a draw offer in a winning position to book his place in the second round. Rip up that airplane ticket home, Sam!

Peter Leko (left) and Sam Shankland at the post-match press conference

Wang Yue also needed a win to recover from his first game loss, but despite having great chances he was also eliminated.

The top seeds survived intact, although #8 seed Gata Kamsky's match will go to tie-breaks after his opponent beat him today to equalise. English GM Michael Adams narrowly avoided the same fate, somehow scraping a draw to go through.

Other familiar names going to tie-breaks include Vallejo-Pons who lost today, Etienne Bacrot who is having trouble with the young US star Ray Robson, and Alexander Morozevich.

Women's world champion Hou Yifan went down fighting against Sergey Movsesian, but Judit Polgar is through without any mishaps.

Hou Yifan was eliminated in the first round

The Egyptian Ahmed Adly was unable to play today after being taken ill with kidney stones, so he is eliminated from the competition.

17 matches will go to rapid tie-breaks tomorrow.

The scores in Round 1:

Seed	Name	Nat		Name	Nat	Seed
1	Karjakin,Sergey	RUS	2-0	Kaabi,Mejdi	TUN	128
2	Ivanchuk,Vassily	UKR	2-0	Steel,Henry Robert	RSA	127
3	Mamedyarov,Shakhriyar	AZE	2-0	Ibrahim,Hatim	EGY	126
4	Ponomariov,Ruslan	UKR	1½-½	Gwaze,Robert	ZIM	125
5	Gashimov,Vugar	AZE	2-0	Hansen,Eric	CAN	124
6	Grischuk,Alexander	RUS	1½-½	Genba,Vladimir	RUS	123
7	Radjabov,Teimour	AZE	2-0	De La Paz Perdomo,Frank	CUB	122
8	Kamsky,Gata	USA	1-1	Di Berardino,Diego Rafael	BRA	121
9	Svidler,Peter	RUS	1½-½	Lima,Darcy	BRA	120
10	Jakovenko,Dmitry	RUS	2-0	Salem,A.R. Saleh	UAE	119
11	Vitiugov,Nikita	RUS	1-1	Bezgodov,Alexei	RUS	118
12	Almasi,Zoltan	HUN	2-0	El Gindy,Essam	EGY	117
13	Vallejo Pons,Francisco	ESP	1-1	Cori,Jorge	PER	116
14	Navara,David	CZE	2-0	Kabanov,Nikolai	RUS	115
15	Vachier-Lagrave,Maxime	FRA	1½-½	Rahman,Ziaur	BAN	114
16	Dominguez Perez,Leinier	CUB	1½-½	Moradiabadi,Elshan	IRI	113
			Bye	Ivanov,Alexander	USA	112
18	Leko,Peter	HUN	½-1½	Shankland,Samuel L	USA	111
19	Moiseenko,Alexander	UKR	1½-½	Esen,Baris	TUR	110
20	Le,Quang Liem	VIE	1½-½	Megaranto,Susanto	INA	109
21	Adams,Michael	ENG	1½-½	Paragua,Mark	PHI	108
22	Shirov,Alexei	ESP	1½-½	Leon Hoyos,Manuel	MEX	107
23	Jobava,Baadur	GEO	2-0	Guliyev,Namig	AZE	106
24	Caruana,Fabiano	ITA	1½-½	Pridorozhni,Aleksei	RUS	105
25	Nepomniachtchi,Ian	RUS	2-0	Ortiz Suarez,Isan Reynald	CUB	104
26	Bacrot,Etienne	FRA	1-1	Robson,Ray	USA	103
27	Wang,Yue	CHN	½-1½	Fier,Alexandr	BRA	102
28	Tomashevsky,Evgeny	RUS	2-0	Zhao,Zong-Yuan	AUS	101
29	Efimenko,Zahar	UKR	1½-½	Babula,Vlastimil	CZE	100
30	Malakhov,Vladimir	RUS	1-1	Felgaer,Ruben	ARG	99
31	Sutovsky,Emil	ISR	1-1	Vorobiov,Evgeny E.	RUS	98
32	Movsesian,Sergei	ARM	2-0	Hou,Yifan	CHN	97
33	Polgar,Judit	HUN	2-0	Corrales Jimenez,Fidel	CUB	96
34	Fressinet,Laurent	FRA	2-0	Jumabayev,Rinat	KAZ	95
35	Eljanov,Pavel	UKR	1-1	Zherebukh,Yaroslav	UKR	94
36	Berkes,Ferenc	HUN	1½-½	Mareco,Sandro	ARG	93
37	Andreikin,Dmitry	RUS	1½-½	Kazhgaleyev,Murtas	KAZ	92
38	Morozevich,Alexander	RUS	1-1	Halkias,Stelios	GRE	91
39	Zhigalko,Sergei	BLR	0-2	Filippov,Anton	UZB	90
40	Riazantsev,Alexander	RUS	1½-½	Bluvshtein,Mark	CAN	89
41	Motylev,Alexander	RUS	1-1	Drozdovskij,Yuri	UKR	88
42	Wojtaszek,Radoslaw	POL	2-0	Pashikian,Arman	ARM	87
43	Potkin,Vladimir	RUS	1-1	Shulman,Yuri	USA	86
44	Nielsen,Peter Heine	DEN	1-1	Postny,Evgeny	ISR	85
45	Grachev,Boris	RUS	1½-½	Romanov,Evgeny	RUS	84
46	Inarkiev,Ernesto	RUS	1½-½	Salgado Lopez,Ivan	ESP	83
47	Mamedov,Rauf	AZE	½-1½	Gupta,Abhijeet	IND	82
48	Kobalia,Mikhail	RUS	1-1	Lysyj,Igor	RUS	81
49	Bologan,Viktor	MDA	1½-½	Socko,Bartosz	POL	80
50	Bu,Xiangzhi	CHN	2-0	Adly,Ahmed	EGY	79
51	Onischuk,Alexander	USA	1½-½	Ivanisevic,Ivan	SRB	78
52	Bruzon Batista,Lazaro	CUB	1-1	Quesada Perez,Yuniesky	CUB	77
53	Yu,Yangyi	CHN	0-2	Parligras,Mircea-Emilian	ROU	76
54	Korobov,Anton	UKR	2-0	Zhou,Jianchao	CHN	75
55	Harikrishna,P.	IND	1½-½	Rodshtein,Maxim	ISR	74
56	Li,Chao b	CHN	½-1½	Nguyen,Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	73
57	Kasimdzhanov,Rustam	UZB	1½-½	Nisipeanu,Liviu-Dieter	ROU	72
			Bye	Negi,Parimarjan	IND	71
59	Feller,Sebastien	FRA	1-1	Iordachescu,Viorel	MDA	70
60	Timofeev,Artyom	RUS	½-1½	Azarov,Sergei	BLR	69
61	Ni,Hua	CHN	1-1	Khairullin,Ildar	RUS	68
62	Fridman,Daniel	GER	1½-½	Lupulescu,Constantin	ROU	67
63	Alekseev,Evgeny	RUS	1-1	Ragger,Markus	AUT	66
64	So,Wesley	PHI	1-1	Ding,Liren	CHN	65

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.

Pictures from the official website.

Peter Leko And Wang Yue Exit World Cup

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