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The first day of the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk offered few real surprises. The seeding system meant that the top seed Sergey Karjakin played bottom seed Mejdi Kaabi, 2nd seed Ivanchuk played Henry Steel etc. So most surprises occurred on the lower boards where the most closely ranked players met. Indeed 13 of the top 14 seeds all won.

There were some minor surprises in Darcy Lima's draw against Peter Svidler and in form Alexander Morozevich's failure to win as white against Stelios Halkios.

Alexandr Fier (2566) scored the first real shock against Wang Yue. Fier simply outplayed Wang on the white side of a Slav.

The major shock, and one that will be difficult to recover from, was Peter Leko's loss with white to Sam Shankland. Leko pressed for a very long time but at some point after the first time control he started to get frustrated. Then very quickly Shankland took advantage and by the time Leko thought to offer a draw his position was probably beyond fixing. Shankland is probably a little under-rated playing most of his chess in the US and Leko a little out of practice having only returned for the Olympiad.

The tightness of the schedule for the French players may cost them, their national championships only finishing a couple of days ago. Vachier and Bacrot drew, Feller lost and only Fressinet won.

The early rounds of the World Cup are very difficult to cover properly. Henry Steel played with good energy against Vassily Ivanchuk but was probably a lot worse throughout and eventually allowed a nice mate. Judit Polgar grabbed material at the expense of an open king but she held on to everything on the way to a nice win. Those were just a couple of games that caught my eye.

The official site started reasonably well with the promise of much better to come. The downside was that it went down a couple of times during the day. But the videos and live games are on separate servers and they remained very much stable.

The continuation of the video coverage that was seen in the Candidates was hugely encouraging. With so many players it was difficult to get close to the games but the filming gave a good impression of the crowded conditions that will thin considerably in the next few days. Anna Sharevich and Konstantin Landa did an excellent job in commentating in English (there was a separate Russian feed) and there was some coverage of press conferences and Anna Sharevich provided a more than acceptable translation. One could hardly ask for more.

TWIC will have live coverage of the games with hopefully the best ordered PGN of the event being dynamically updated.

FIDE World Cup 2011 Khanty-Mansiysk RUS Sun 28th Aug 2011 - Tue 20th Sep 2011 Round 1 Results
Name	FED	G1	G2	R1	R2	R3	R4	B1	B2	B3	B4	B5	B6	B7	B8	B9	B10	SD	Tot
Round 1 Match 01
Kaabi, Mejdi	TUN	0																	0.0
Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	1																	1
Round 1 Match 02
Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	1																	1.0
Steel, Henry Robert	RSA	0																	0
Round 1 Match 03
Ibrahim, Hatim	EGY	0																	0.0
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	1																	1
Round 1 Match 04
Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	1																	1.0
Gwaze, Robert	ZIM	0																	0
Round 1 Match 05
Hansen, Eric	CAN	0																	0.0
Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	1																	1
Round 1 Match 06
Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	1																	1.0
Genba, Vladimir	RUS	0																	0
Round 1 Match 07
De La Paz Perdomo, Frank	CUB	0																	0.0
Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	1																	1
Round 1 Match 08
Kamsky, Gata	USA	1																	1.0
Di Berardino, Diego Rafae	BRA	0																	0
Round 1 Match 09
Lima, Darcy	BRA	½																	0.5
Svidler, Peter	RUS	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 10
Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	1																	1.0
Salem, A.R. Saleh	UAE	0																	0
Round 1 Match 11
Bezgodov, Alexei	RUS	½																	0.5
Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 12
Almasi, Zoltan	HUN	1																	1.0
El Gindy, Essam	EGY	0																	0
Round 1 Match 13
Cori, Jorge	PER	0																	0.0
Vallejo Pons, Francisco	ESP	1																	1
Round 1 Match 14
Navara, David	CZE	1																	1.0
Kabanov, Nikolai	RUS	0																	0
Round 1 Match 15
Rahman, Ziaur	BAN	½																	0.5
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 16
Dominguez Perez, Leinier	CUB	1																	1.0
Moradiabadi, Elshan	IRI	0																	0
Round 1 Match 17
Ivanov, Alexander	USA	1																	1.0
Wang, Hao	CHN	0																	0
Round 1 Match 18
Leko, Peter	HUN	0																	0.0
Shankland, Samuel L	USA	1																	1
Round 1 Match 19
Esen, Baris	TUR	½																	0.5
Moiseenko, Alexander	UKR	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 20
Le, Quang Liem	VIE	1																	1.0
Megaranto, Susanto	INA	0																	0
Round 1 Match 21
Paragua, Mark	PHI	0																	0.0
Adams, Michael	ENG	1																	1
Round 1 Match 22
Shirov, Alexei	ESP	1																	1.0
Leon Hoyos, Manuel	MEX	0																	0
Round 1 Match 23
Guliyev, Namig	AZE	0																	0.0
Jobava, Baadur	GEO	1																	1
Round 1 Match 24
Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	1																	1.0
Pridorozhni, Aleksei	RUS	0																	0
Round 1 Match 25
Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynal	CUB	0																	0.0
Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS	1																	1
Round 1 Match 26
Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	½																	0.5
Robson, Ray	USA	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 27
Fier, Alexandr	BRA	1																	1.0
Wang, Yue	CHN	0																	0
Round 1 Match 28
Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	1																	1.0
Zhao, Zong-Yuan	AUS	0																	0
Round 1 Match 29
Babula, Vlastimil	CZE	½																	0.5
Efimenko, Zahar	UKR	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 30
Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	½																	0.5
Felgaer, Ruben	ARG	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 31
Vorobiov, Evgeny E.	RUS	½																	0.5
Sutovsky, Emil	ISR	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 32
Movsesian, Sergei	ARM	1																	1.0
Hou, Yifan	CHN	0																	0
Round 1 Match 33
Corrales Jimenez, Fidel	CUB	0																	0.0
Polgar, Judit	HUN	1																	1
Round 1 Match 34
Fressinet, Laurent	FRA	1																	1.0
Jumabayev, Rinat	KAZ	0																	0
Round 1 Match 35
Zherebukh, Yaroslav	UKR	½																	0.5
Eljanov, Pavel	UKR	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 36
Berkes, Ferenc	HUN	1																	1.0
Mareco, Sandro	ARG	0																	0
Round 1 Match 37
Kazhgaleyev, Murtas	KAZ	½																	0.5
Andreikin, Dmitry	RUS	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 38
Morozevich, Alexander	RUS	½																	0.5
Halkias, Stelios	GRE	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 39
Filippov, Anton	UZB	1																	1.0
Zhigalko, Sergei	BLR	0																	0
Round 1 Match 40
Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	1																	1.0
Bluvshtein, Mark	CAN	0																	0
Round 1 Match 41
Drozdovskij, Yuri	UKR	½																	0.5
Motylev, Alexander	RUS	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 42
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	1																	1.0
Pashikian, Arman	ARM	0																	0
Round 1 Match 43
Shulman, Yuri	USA	½																	0.5
Potkin, Vladimir	RUS	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 44
Nielsen, Peter Heine	DEN	½																	0.5
Postny, Evgeny	ISR	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 45
Romanov, Evgeny	RUS	½																	0.5
Grachev, Boris	RUS	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 46
Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	1																	1.0
Salgado Lopez, Ivan	ESP	0																	0
Round 1 Match 47
Gupta, Abhijeet	IND	½																	0.5
Mamedov, Rauf	AZE	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 48
Kobalia, Mikhail	RUS	½																	0.5
Lysyj, Igor	RUS	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 49
Socko, Bartosz	POL	0																	0.0
Bologan, Viktor	MDA	1																	1
Round 1 Match 50
Bu, Xiangzhi	CHN	1																	1.0
Adly, Ahmed	EGY	0																	0
Round 1 Match 51
Ivanisevic, Ivan	SRB	½																	0.5
Onischuk, Alexander	USA	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 52
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro	CUB	½																	0.5
Quesada Perez, Yuniesky	CUB	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 53
Parligras, Mircea-Emilian	ROU	1																	1.0
Yu, Yangyi	CHN	0																	0
Round 1 Match 54
Korobov, Anton	UKR	1																	1.0
Zhou, Jianchao	CHN	0																	0
Round 1 Match 55
Rodshtein, Maxim	ISR	0																	0.0
Harikrishna, P.	IND	1																	1
Round 1 Match 56
Li, Chao b	CHN	½																	0.5
Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 57
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	ROU	0																	0.0
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	UZB	1																	1
Round 1 Match 58
Akopian, Vladimir	ARM	0																	0.0
Negi, Parimarjan	IND	1																	1
Round 1 Match 59
Iordachescu, Viorel	MDA	1																	1.0
Feller, Sebastien	FRA	0																	0
Round 1 Match 60
Timofeev, Artyom	RUS	½																	0.5
Azarov, Sergei	BLR	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 61
Khairullin, Ildar	RUS	½																	0.5
Ni, Hua	CHN	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 62
Fridman, Daniel	GER	½																	0.5
Lupulescu, Constantin	ROU	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 63
Ragger, Markus	AUT	½																	0.5
Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	½																	0.5
Round 1 Match 64
So, Wesley	PHI	½																	0.5
Ding, Liren	CHN	½																	0.5

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