World Cup 2009-Round 2 Pairings-

Here are today's results in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia at the World Cup Tournament 2009.  It looks like several players are putting the pressure on their opponents after winning with the black pieces and only needing a draw to hold for the win tomorrow to advance to round 3.  Among these players are: Viktor Laznicka, Wesley So, the young phenom from The Philippines, Dmitry Jakovenko, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, a player who has taken on TransWarp many times, Etienne Bacrot, the US's own Gata Kamsky and Yannick Pelletier. Laznicka being an upset winner in today's game vs Alexander Morozevich! Also with the upset, only with the white pieces is China's Yangyi Yu and Toni Nyback's upset over Russia's Peter Svidler, I will post that game and Wesley So's win over Vassily Ivanchuk below the results.

1. 0.5-0.5 Amonatov, Farrukh (TJK) ½-½ Gelfand, Boris (ISR) 
2. 0.5-0.5 Gashimov, Vugar (AZE) ½-½ Zhou, Jianchao (CHN)
3. 1-0 Nyback, Tomi (FIN) 1-0 Svidler, Peter (RUS)
4. 0-1 Morozevich, Alexander (RUS) 0-1 Laznicka, Viktor (CZE)
5. 1-0 Sakaev, Konstantin (RUS) 1-0 Radjabov, Teimour (AZE)
6. 0-1 Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR) 0-1 So, Wesley (PHI)
7. 0.5-0.5 Akobian, Varuzhan (USA) ½-½ Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR)
8. 1-0 Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) 1-0 Tkachiev, Vladislav (FRA)
9. 0-1 Sandipan, Chanda (IND) 0-1 Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS)
10. 1-0 Wang, Yue (CHN) 1-0 Savchenko, Boris (RUS)
11. 1-0 Inarkiev, Ernesto (RUS) 1-0 Eljanov, Pavel (UKR)
12. 0.5-0.5 Karjakin, Sergey (UKR) ½-½ Timofeev, Artyom (RUS)
13. 0-1 Milov, Vadim (SUI) 0-1 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (AZE)
14. 1-0 Shirov, Alexei (ESP) 1-0 Fedorchuk, Sergey A. (UKR)
15. 0.5-0.5 Caruana, Fabiano (ITA) ½-½ Dominguez Perez, Leinier (CUB)
16. 1-0 Yu, Yangyi (CHN) 1-0 Bartel, Mateusz (POL)
17. 0.5-0.5 Meier, Georg (GER) ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA)
18. 0.5-0.5 Alekseev, Evgeny (RUS) ½-½ Fressinet, Laurent (FRA)
19. 0.5-0.5 Khalifman, Alexander (RUS) ½-½ Tomashevsky, Evgeny (RUS)
20. 1-0 Wang, Hao (CHN) 1-0 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar (IND)
21. 0.5-0.5 Shabalov, Alexander (USA) ½-½ Navara, David (CZE)
22. 0.5-0.5 Malakhov, Vladimir (RUS) ½-½ Smirin, Ilia (ISR)
23. 0-1 Sasikiran, Krishnan (IND) 0-1 Bacrot, Etienne (FRA)
24. 0.5-0.5 Rublevsky, Sergei (RUS) ½-½ Areshchenko, Alexander (UKR)
25. 0.5-0.5 Iturrizaga, Eduardo (VEN) ½-½ Jobava, Baadur (GEO)
26. 1-0 Motylev, Alexander (RUS) 1-0 Najer, Evgeniy (RUS)
27. 0-1 Zhou, Weiqi (CHN) 0-1 Kamsky, Gata (USA)
28. 0.5-0.5 Vitiugov, Nikita (RUS) ½-½ Milos, Gilberto (BRA)
29. 0.5-0.5 Cheparinov, Ivan (BUL) ½-½ Bologan, Viktor (MDA)
30. 1-0 Naiditsch, Arkadij (GER) 1-0 Onischuk, Alexander (USA)
31. 0-1 Li, Chao b (CHN) 0-1 Pelletier, Yannick (SUI)
32. 0.5-0.5 Polgar, Judit (HUN) ½-½ Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter (ROU)

 

Nyback, Tomi  1-0 Svidler, Peter


Ivanchuk, Vassily  0-1 So, Wesley


Fine games by both players!

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