The two no-shows were Vladimir Akopian (who has broken his leg) and Wang Hao (who seems to have some heart problems). So Parimarjan Negi of India and Alexander Ivanov of the USA are already assured of having their names in the second round pairings.
The results from the first legs of the first round are as follows:
Bd. | Seed | Title | White/ Rating | Country | Result | Seed | Title | Black/ Rating | Country |
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1 | 1 | IM | Mejdi Kaabi 2344 | TUN | 0-1 | 128 | GM | Sergey Karjakin 2788 | RUS |
2 | 2 | GM | Vassily Ivanchuk 2768 | UKR | 1-0 | 127 | FM | Henry Robert Steel 2362 | RSA |
3 | 3 | Hatim Ibrahim 2402 | EGY | 0-1 | 126 | GM | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2765 | AZE | |
4 | 4 | GM | Ruslan Ponomariov 2764 | UKR | 1-0 | 125 | IM | Robert Gwaze (Not Published) | ZIM |
5 | 5 | IM | Eric Hansen 2449 | CAN | 0-1 | 124 | GM | Vugar Gashimov 2760 | AZE |
6 | 6 | GM | Alexander Grischuk 2746 | RUS | 1-0 | 123 | IM | Vladimir Genba 2452 | RUS |
7 | 7 | GM | Frank De La Paz Perdomo 2477 | CUB | 0-1 | 122 | GM | Teimour Radjabov 2744 | AZE |
8 | 8 | GM | Gata Kamsky 2741 | USA | 1-0 | 121 | IM | Diego Rafael Di Berardino 2480 | BRA |
9 | 9 | GM | Darcy Lima 2493 | BRA | ½-½ | 120 | GM | Peter Svidler 2739 | RUS |
10 | 10 | GM | Dmitry Jakovenko 2736 | RUS | 1-0 | 119 | GM | A.R. Saleh Salem 2493 | UAE |
11 | 11 | GM | Alexei Bezgodov 2503 | RUS | ½-½ | 118 | GM | Nikita Vitiugov 2733 | RUS |
12 | 12 | GM | Zoltan Almasi 2726 | HUN | 1-0 | 117 | GM | Essam El Gindy 2510 | EGY |
13 | 13 | GM | Jorge Cori 2514 | PER | 0-1 | 116 | GM | Francisco Vallejo Pons 2724 | ESP |
14 | 14 | GM | David Navara 2722 | CZE | 1-0 | 115 | GM | Nikolai Kabanov 2520 | RUS |
15 | 15 | GM | Ziaur Rahman 2528 | BAN | ½-½ | 114 | GM | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2722 | FRA |
16 | 16 | GM | Leinier Dominguez Perez 2719 | CUB | 1-0 | 113 | GM | Elshan Moradiabadi 2532 | IRI |
17 | 17 | GM | Alexander Ivanov 2538 | USA | 1-0F | 112 | GM | Wang Hao 2718 | CHN |
18 | 18 | GM | Peter Leko 2717 | HUN | 0-1 | 111 | GM | Samuel L Shankland 2539 | USA |
19 | 19 | GM | Baris Esen 2543 | TUR | ½-½ | 110 | GM | Alexander Moiseenko 2715 | UKR |
20 | 20 | GM | Le Quang Liem 2715 | VIE | 1-0 | 109 | GM | Susanto Megaranto 2544 | INA |
21 | 21 | GM | Mark Paragua 2545 | PHI | 0-1 | 108 | GM | Michael Adams 2715 | ENG |
22 | 22 | GM | Alexei Shirov 2714 | ESP | 1-0 | 107 | GM | Manuel Leon Hoyos 2548 | MEX |
23 | 23 | GM | Namig Guliyev 2549 | AZE | 0-1 | 106 | GM | Baadur Jobava 2713 | GEO |
24 | 24 | GM | Fabiano Caruana 2711 | ITA | 1-0 | 105 | GM | Aleksei Pridorozhni 2550 | RUS |
25 | 25 | IM | Isan Reynald Ortiz Suarez 2556 | CUB | 0-1 | 104 | GM | Ian Nepomniachtchi 2711 | RUS |
26 | 26 | GM | Etienne Bacrot 2710 | FRA | ½-½ | 103 | GM | Ray Robson 2560 | USA |
27 | 27 | GM | Alexandr Fier 2566 | BRA | 1-0 | 102 | GM | Wang Yue 2709 | CHN |
28 | 28 | GM | Evgeny Tomashevsky 2707 | RUS | 1-0 | 101 | GM | Zhao Zong-Yuan 2570 | AUS |
29 | 29 | GM | Vlastimil Babula 2572 | CZE | ½-½ | 100 | GM | Zahar Efimenko 2706 | UKR |
30 | 30 | GM | Vladimir Malakhov 2706 | RUS | ½-½ | 99 | GM | Ruben Felgaer 2573 | ARG |
31 | 31 | GM | Evgeny E Vorobiov 2574 | RUS | ½-½ | 98 | GM | Emil Sutovsky 2700 | ISR |
32 | 32 | GM | Sergei Movsesian 2700 | ARM | 1-0 | 97 | GM | Hou Yifan 2575 | CHN |
33 | 33 | GM | Fidel Corrales Jimenez 2585 | CUB | 0-1 | 96 | GM | Judit Polgar 2699 | HUN |
34 | 34 | GM | Laurent Fressinet 2698 | FRA | 1-0 | 95 | GM | Rinat Jumabayev 2589 | KAZ |
35 | 35 | GM | Yaroslav Zherebukh 2590 | UKR | ½-½ | 94 | GM | Pavel Eljanov 2697 | UKR |
36 | 36 | GM | Ferenc Berkes 2696 | HUN | 1-0 | 93 | GM | Sandro Mareco 2597 | ARG |
37 | 37 | GM | Murtas Kazhgaleyev 2597 | KAZ | ½-½ | 92 | GM | Dmitry Andreikin 2696 | RUS |
38 | 38 | GM | Alexander Morozevich 2694 | RUS | ½-½ | 91 | GM | Stelios Halkias 2600 | GRE |
39 | 39 | GM | Anton Filippov 2606 | UZB | 1-0 | 90 | GM | Sergei Zhigalko 2689 | BLR |
40 | 40 | GM | Alexander Riazantsev 2688 | RUS | 1-0 | 89 | GM | Mark Bluvshtein 2611 | CAN |
41 | 41 | GM | Yuri Drozdovskij 2614 | UKR | ½-½ | 88 | GM | Alexander Motylev 2685 | RUS |
42 | 42 | GM | Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2683 | POL | 1-0 | 87 | GM | Arman Pashikian 2616 | ARM |
43 | 43 | GM | Yuri Shulman 2617 | USA | ½-½ | 86 | GM | Vladimir Potkin 2682 | RUS |
44 | 44 | GM | Peter Heine Nielsen 2681 | DEN | ½-½ | 85 | GM | Evgeny Postny 2618 | ISR |
45 | 45 | GM | Evgeny Romanov 2624 | RUS | ½-½ | 84 | GM | Boris Grachev 2680 | RUS |
46 | 46 | GM | Ernesto Inarkiev 2679 | RUS | 1-0 | 83 | GM | Ivan Salgado Lopez 2626 | ESP |
47 | 47 | GM | Abhijeet Gupta 2627 | IND | ½-½ | 82 | GM | Rauf Mamedov 2679 | AZE |
48 | 48 | GM | Mikhail Kobalia 2679 | RUS | ½-½ | 81 | GM | Igor Lysyj 2629 | RUS |
49 | 49 | GM | Bartosz Socko 2631 | POL | 0-1 | 80 | GM | Viktor Bologan 2678 | MDA |
50 | 50 | GM | Bu Xiangzhi 2675 | CHN | 1-0 | 79 | GM | Ahmed Adly 2631 | EGY |
51 | 51 | GM | Ivan Ivanisevic 2633 | SRB | ½-½ | 78 | GM | Alexander Onischuk 2675 | USA |
52 | 52 | GM | Lazaro Bruzon Batista 2673 | CUB | ½-½ | 77 | GM | Yuniesky Quesada Perez 2635 | CUB |
53 | 53 | GM | Mircea-Emilian Parligras 2636 | ROU | 1-0 | 76 | GM | Yu Yangyi 2672 | CHN |
54 | 54 | GM | Anton Korobov 2671 | UKR | 1-0 | 75 | GM | Zhou Jianchao 2636 | CHN |
55 | 55 | GM | Maxim Rodshtein 2637 | ISR | 0-1 | 74 | GM | Pentala Harikrishna 2669 | IND |
56 | 56 | GM | Li Chao b 2669 | CHN | ½-½ | 73 | GM | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2637 | VIE |
57 | 57 | GM | Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2641 | ROU | 0-1 | 72 | GM | Rustam Kasimdzhanov 2669 | UZB |
58 | 58 | GM | Vladimir Akopian 2667 | ARM | 0-1F | 71 | GM | Parimarjan Negi 2642 | IND |
59 | 59 | GM | Viorel Iordachescu 2646 | MDA | 1-0 | 70 | GM | Sebastien Feller 2666 | FRA |
60 | 60 | GM | Artyom Timofeev 2665 | RUS | ½-½ | 69 | GM | Sergei Azarov 2648 | BLR |
61 | 61 | GM | Ildar Khairullin 2649 | RUS | ½-½ | 68 | GM | Ni Hua 2662 | CHN |
62 | 62 | GM | Daniel Fridman 2659 | GER | ½-½ | 67 | GM | Constantin Lupulescu 2650 | ROU |
63 | 63 | GM | Markus Ragger 2651 | AUT | ½-½ | 66 | GM | Evgeny Alekseev 2659 | RUS |
64 | 64 | GM | Wesley So 2658 | PHI | ½-½ | 65 | GM | Ding Liren 2654 | CHN |
The remaining schedule for the first round will be as follows:
29 August: Round 1 - Game 2
30 August: Tie-breaks
After the smoke has cleared after the first three days play, half of the players will have been eliminated!
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