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After 5.5 hours of play, one game continues – Arthur Ssegwanyi against Anish Giri. As I write 113 moves have been played and Giri has a slight advantage in a R+2p vs R+1p endgame.
In other games Boris Gelfand has drawn with Henriquez Villagra and Alexander Grischuk has drawn with Atabayev.
Some comments online:
Chris Bird – Robson lost to GM Yuri Vovk with the white pieces. Got an uphill battle tomorrow to save his event.
Chris Bird – Kamsky also goes down with the white pieces to hop in the same boat as Robson, needing to win with black tomorrow
NIC – Kramnik and So join the 1st round winners. World Champ Mariya Muzychuk draws against Michael Adams
Chess24 – Yu Shanglei (2599) beats Alexander Moiseenko (2710) in one of the first upsets of the World Cup
Sinochess – Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Wei Yi, Wang Hao, Wen Yang, Lu Shanglei win. Zhao Jun, Hou Yigan draw. Ni Hua Zhou Jianchao loss.
World Cup 2015
Round 1, Game 1
Ivanchuk, Vassily – Adly, Ahmed
B17 Caro-Kann, Petrosian-Smyslov Variation
Three games finished in less than an hour today, all draws, and all three head to tie-breaks tomorrow: Brkic-Fressinet, Kovalyov-Kasimdzhanov, and Vidit-Bruzon. One would have to think Canada's Anton Kovalyov's chances have greatly improved since their Rapid ratings are much closer, 2567 vs 2619 (:
Last edited by Jack Maguire; Saturday, 12th September, 2015, 07:15 AM.
There have been 6 'quick' draws now (Grachev-Motylev and Lupulescu-Lysyj being the other 2) and only the Krnan draw does not send the match to a tie-break tomorrow.
An excellent result for 14-year-old GM, Samuel Sevian, who again draws with Radjabov and forces a tie-break tomorrow. Sam doesn't have a Rapid or Blitz rating with FIDE while Radjabov gets better the quicker the time control (Rapid 2741 and Blitz 2808).
The commentators in English today are GMs Emil Sutovsky and Evgeny Miroshnichenko. Emil was born in Baku but now represents Israel. Evgeny is Ukrainian. They give a smooth knowledgeable commentary.
If Vassily Ivanchuk is in a contest, I always like to see what his mood is at the first to see if he is going to have a good tournament. His match is against Ahmed Adly, the Egyptian grandmaster.
Of yesterday’s first game, a viewer on chess.com said this:
Ivanchuk's game was awesome, he mocked his opponent, he totally trolled. Laughing, played same pieces more than twice in the opening endless annoying rook maneuvers in the middlegame, also Bd1 and Bxe1 give away the bishop in the endgame, cus opponent's knight can not prevent chucky's pawn promotion
Today’s game ended in a perpetual with Ivanchuk having two queens and two rooks. So, he goes on to the next round.
After six hours the results of games 1 and 2:
If the score is 1-1, the players head to the tie-break playoffs tomorrow.
So just a couple of dozen tie-breakers tomorrow. The first set is 25+10 and if that doesn't decide, two games with 10+10, then 5+3, then Armageddon.
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- First decisive game, Wiedenkeller-Aronian 0-1. About the same time: Nakamura-Phiri 1-0. Both of these went fairly deep into endgames, with the loser using substantially more time than the winner.
- Moiseenko-Lu and Perunovic-Wang the first to be split wins I think.
Grischuk will be playing tiebreaks. Giri won, so Grischuk at #7 is the highest. Jakovenko at #10 likely also, with Tomashevsky and Gelfand already have drawn too.
- After 207 moves anish giri finally beats Arthur Ssegwanyi!
(Susan Polgar) - Despite travel difficulties and no luggage, Le Quang Liem qualifies
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World Cup 2015
Round 1, Game 2
Muzychuk, Mariya – Adams, Michael
A20 English, Kingside Fianchetto
It's been played by both Anand and Carlsen. I would see it as a waiting move. Black would like to play .. Bb4, but that isn't possible without Nc3 or d3 having been played.
If play becomes like a Rossolimo, but in reverse, P-KR3 is a move that's usually eventually played.
- The psychologically accurate response is probably 4.a3, then. Which is normally a pretty decent idea in a reversed Sicilian position.
(Leonard Barden) - Adams was briefly losing at move 27 but, aided by Muzychuk, has turned it right round and now has a winning ending.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Saturday, 12th September, 2015, 12:41 PM.
TOP SEEDS ADVANCE TO SECOND ROUND, 24 MATCHES TO BE DECIDED IN TIE-BREAKS
Top seeds advance to second round, 24 matches to be decided in tie-breaks
The second games of the first round of the 2015 FIDE World Cup were completed in the Fairmont Flame Towers in Baku.
Majority of the top seeded players cruised to the second round by eliminating much lower rated opposition, but some of the world's best faced fierce resistance and their matches will be decided in tie-breaks.
Notably, Russian Grandmasters Alexander Grischuk (7th seed), Dmitry Jakovenko (10th) and Evgeny Tomashevsky (12th) tied their matches against Yusup Atabayev, Ilia Iljiushenok and Ziaur Rahman, respectively.
Former World Championship finalist Boris Gelfand was held by Chilean champion Cristobal Henriquez.
Leinier Dominguez made an incredible comeback by pulling an endgame victory to even the match with Federico Perez.
Other memorable comebacks were wins of Alexander Moiseenko against Lu Shanglei and of Perunovic Milos against higher-rated Wang Hao.
The second round is already set to see the players from same nations going against each other. Hikaru Nakamura will play Samuel Shankland, while Pentala Harikrishna is paired against fellow Indian SP Sethuraman.
23 pairs of players will return to the tournament hall on Sunday 15:00 local time to decide who will qualify for the next round.
According to the Regulations (3.8 Tie-breaks), after a new drawing of colors, two tie-break games with the time control 25min + 10sec will be played.
If the scores are still level, then, after a new drawing of colors, a match of two games with the time control 10min + 10sec will be played.
In case of a level score, another match of two games will be played, with a blitz time control of 5min + 3sec.
If still there is no winner, one sudden-death game will be played. The player who wins the drawing of lots may choose the color. The player with the white pieces shall receive 5 minutes, the opponent with the black pieces shall receive 4 minutes whereupon, after the 60th move, both players shall receive an increment of 3 seconds for each move from move 61. In case of a draw the player with the black pieces is declared the winner.
So now it's blitz time. Anton's and Rustam's blitz ratings are tantamount, 2628 vs 2641, so it's pretty much a coin flip now after 4 consecutive draws.
Gelfand couldn't win a single game against the Chilean teenage IM, Cristobal Henriquez Villagra, and is now out of the tournament. The latter's 2 Knights were certainly superior to Gelfand's 2 Bishops.
While Anton's 5 consecutive draws aren't all that surprising, how about IM Yusup Atabayev (2428/2455/2450) holding Grischuk (2771/2846/2814) 5 straight games!
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