For US fans it was a mixed day: Kamsky is through, but Shankland and Onischuk are out.
The young Czech GM David Navara was the cause of Onischuk's downfall.
Amongst the favourites, Vassily Ivanchuk and Teimour Radjabov are through.
The crowd-pleaser Alexei Shirov is out.
The full results of the second round, second legs are as follows:
| Seed | White | Country | Rating | Result | Seed | Black | Country | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | Wesley So (0.5) | PHI | 2658 | ½-½ | 1 | Sergey Karjakin (0.5) | RUS | 2788 |
| 32 | Sergei Movsesian(0.5) | ARM | 2700 | 0-1 | 33 | Judit Polgar (0.5) | HUN | 2699 |
| 16 | Leinier Dominguez (1) | CUB | 2719 | ½-½ | 49 | Viktor Bologan (0) | MDA | 2678 |
| 81 | Igor Lysyj (0.5) | RUS | 2629 | ½-½ | 112 | Alexander Ivanov (0.5) | USA | 2538 |
| 8 | Gata Kamsky (0.5) | USA | 2741 | 1-0 | 57 | Rustam Kasimdzhanov (0.5) | UZB | 2669 |
| 40 | Alexander Riazantsev(0.5) | RUS | 2688 | ½-½ | 25 | Ian Nepomniachtchi (0.5) | RUS | 2711 |
| 73 | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (0.5) | VIE | 2637 | ½-½ | 9 | Peter Svidler (0.5) | RUS | 2739 |
| 24 | Fabiano Caruana (0.5) | ITA | 2711 | 1-0 | 88 | Yuri Drozdovskij(0.5) | UKR | 2614 |
| 4 | Ruslan Ponomariov(0.5) | UKR | 2764 | ½-½ | 61 | Ni Hua (0.5) | CHN | 2662 |
| 36 | Ferenc Berkes(0.5) | HUN | 2696 | 0-1 | 29 | Zahar Efimenko (0.5) | UKR | 2706 |
| 52 | Lazaro Bruzon Batista (1) | CUB | 2673 | 0-1 | 13 | Francisco Vallejo Pons (0) | ESP | 2724 |
| 20 | Le Quang Liem (1) | VIE | 2715 | ½-½ | 45 | Boris Grachev (0) | RUS | 2680 |
| 69 | Sergei Azarov (0) | BLR | 2648 | ½-½ | 5 | Vugar Gashimov (1) | AZE | 2760 |
| 28 | Evgeny Tomashevsky (1) | RUS | 2707 | ½-½ | 37 | Dmitry Andreikin (0) | RUS | 2696 |
| 12 | Zoltan Almasi (0) | HUN | 2726 | ½-½ | 76 | Mircea Parligras (1) | ROU | 2636 |
| 44 | Peter Heine Nielsen (0.5) | DEN | 2681 | ½-½ | 21 | Michael Adams (0.5) | ENG | 2715 |
| 2 | Vassily Ivanchuk (1) | UKR | 2768 | ½-½ | 63 | Evgeny Alekseev (0) | RUS | 2659 |
| 34 | Laurent Fressinet (0) | FRA | 2698 | ½-½ | 31 | Emil Sutovsky (1) | ISR | 2700 |
| 50 | Bu Xiangzhi (0.5) | CHN | 2675 | ½-½ | 15 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (0.5) | FRA | 2722 |
| 111 | Samuel Shankland (0.5) | USA | 2539 | 0-1 | 82 | Abhijeet Gupta (0.5) | IND | 2627 |
| 71 | Parimarjan Negi (0) | IND | 2642 | ½-½ | 7 | Teimour Radjabov (1) | AZE | 2744 |
| 26 | Etienne Bacrot (0) | FRA | 2710 | 1-0 | 90 | Anton Filippov (1) | UZB | 2606 |
| 10 | Dmitry Jakovenko (1) | RUS | 2736 | ½-½ | 55 | Pentala Harikrishna (0) | IND | 2669 |
| 42 | Radoslaw Wojtaszek (0.5) | POL | 2683 | 0-1 | 23 | Baadur Jobava (0.5) | GEO | 2713 |
| 62 | Daniel Fridman (0.5) | GER | 2659 | ½-½ | 3 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (0.5) | AZE | 2765 |
| 99 | Ruben Felgaer (0) | ARG | 2573 | 1-0 | 94 | Yaroslav Zherebukh (1) | UKR | 2590 |
| 14 | David Navara (0.5) | CZE | 2722 | 1-0 | 51 | Alexander Onischuk (0.5) | USA | 2675 |
| 46 | Ernesto Inarkiev (0.5) | RUS | 2679 | ½-½ | 19 | Alexander Moiseenko (0.5) | UKR | 2715 |
| 6 | Alexander Grischuk (0.5) | RUS | 2746 | ½-½ | 59 | Sebastien Feller (0.5) | FRA | 2666 |
| 38 | Alexander Morozevich (1) | RUS | 2694 | 1-0 | 102 | Alexandr Fier (0) | BRA | 2566 |
| 54 | Anton Korobov (0) | UKR | 2671 | ½-½ | 11 | Nikita Vitiugov (1) | RUS | 2733 |
| 22 | Alexei Shirov (0) | ESP | 2714 | 0-1 | 43 | Vladimir Potkin (1) | RUS | 2682 |
The tie-breaks are tomorrow on the 2nd of September.
For more information go to the official site: http://chess.ugrasport.com/
Live games: http://chess.ugrasport.com/?cat=12
If you want to follow the live games then note the following:
The local starting time is 3pm and 3pm Khanty Mansiysk = 11am Paris = 10am London = 5am New York = 2am Los Angeles
