World Cup 2009 Round 3 Pairings And Game 1 results

Here are the pairings for round 3 of the World Cup 2009, games of Round 3 game 1 are ongoing now, I will update results later today.  Pairings are shown by seed number, the upset set shown first, the big surprise being the #113 seed Yu, Yangyi of China obviously, sitting where the #16 seed should be, impressive tournament so far. Also can be said of  Li, Chao b, Viktor Laznicka, Konstantin Sakaev, Wesley So and other young GM Fabiano Caruana!

• 1. Boris Gelfand (ISR) 1-0 32. Judit Polgar (HUN)
• 2. Vugar Gashimov (AZE) ½-½ 95. Li Chao b (CHN)
• 3. Peter Svidler (RUS) ½-½ 30. Arkadij Naiditsch (GER)
• 61. Viktor Laznicka (CZE) ½-½ 29. Viktor Bologan (MDA)
• 69. Konstantin Sakaev (RUS) 0-1 28. Nikita Vitiugov (RUS)
• 59. Wesley So (PHI) * (B) 1-0 27. Gata Kamsky (USA) 
• 7. Ruslan Ponomariov (RUS) 1-0 26. Alexander Motylev (RUS)
• 8. Alexander Grischuk (RUS) ½-½ 25. Baadur Jobava (GEO)
• 9. Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS) 1-0 41. Alexander Areshchenko (UKR)
• 10. Wang, Yue (CHN) ½-½ 23. Etienne Bacrot (FRA)
• 11. Pavel Eljanov (UKR) ½-½ 22. Vladimir Malakhov (RUS)
• 12. Sergey Karjakin  (UKR) 0-1 21. David Navara (CZE) * (W)
• 13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) 1-0 20. Wang Hao (CHN)
• 14. Alexei Shirov (ESP) ½-½ 19. Evgeny Tomashevsky (RUS)
• 50. Fabiano Caruana (ITA) ½-½ 18. Evgeny Alekseev (RUS)
• 113. Yu, Yangyi (CHN) 0-1 17. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)  * (W)

* GM So had Black, GM Navara and Vachier-Lagrave had White pieces.