64 players eliminated at World Cup, many big names sent home Georgia, Tbilisi, World Cup Full round 1 results Name G1 G2 R1 R2 r3 r4 B1 B2 SD Tot Round 1 Match 01 Carlsen Magnus (NOR) 1 1 2 Balogun Oluwafemi (NGR) 0 0 0 Round 1 Match 02 Ruiz Castillo Joshua Dani (COL) 0 ½ 0.5 So Wesley (USA) 1 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 03 Caruana Fabiano (USA) 1 1 2 Solomon Kenny (RSA) 0 0 0 Round 1 Match 04 Dai Changren (CHN) 0 ½ 0.5 Kramnik Vladimir (RUS) 1 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 05 Aronian Levon (ARM) 1 1 2 Cawdery Daniel (RSA) 0 0 0 Round 1 Match 06 Liu Guanchu (CHN) 0 ½ 0.5 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar (AZE) 1 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 07 Nakamura Hikaru (USA) 1 1 2 Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib (BAN) 0 0 0 Round 1 Match 08 Khusenkhojaev Muhammad (TJK) ½ 0 0.5 Vachier-Lagrave Maxime (FRA) ½ 1 1.5 Round 1 Match 09 Grischuk Alexander (RUS) 1 1 2 El Gindy Essam (EGY) 0 0 0 Round 1 Match 10 Yeoh Li Tian (MAS) 0 ½ 0.5 Anand Viswanathan (IND) 1 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 11 Ding Liren (CHN) 1 ½ 1.5 Haddouche Mohamed (ALG) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 12 Smirnov Anton (AUS) ½ ½ 0 0 1 Karjakin Sergey (RUS) ½ ½ 1 1 3 Round 1 Match 13 Giri Anish (NED) 1 ½ 1.5 Dzagnidze Nana (GEO) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 14 Sambuev Bator (CAN) 1 0 0 ½ 1.5 Wei Yi (CHN) 0 1 1 ½ 2.5 Round 1 Match 15 Nepomniachtchi Ian (RUS) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 3.5 Palac Mladen (CRO) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2.5 Round 1 Match 16 Vakhidov Jakhongir (UZB) 0 0 0 Svidler Peter (RUS) 1 1 2 Round 1 Match 17 Wojtaszek Radoslaw (POL) 1 ½ 1.5 El Debs Felipe de Cresce (BRA) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 18 Pourramezanali Amirreza (IRI) ½ ½ 0 0 1 Yu Yangyi (CHN) ½ ½ 1 1 3 Round 1 Match 19 Li Chao b (CHN) ½ 1 1.5 Krysa Leandro (ARG) ½ 0 0.5 Round 1 Match 20 Gonzalez Vidal Yuri (CUB) 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 2.5 Harikrishna P. (IND) 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 3.5 Round 1 Match 21 Radjabov Teimour (AZE) ½ 1 1.5 Ziska Helgi Dam (FAI) ½ 0 0.5 Round 1 Match 22 Kunin Vitaly (GER) ½ 0 0.5 Le Quang Liem (VIE) ½ 1 1.5 Round 1 Match 23 Adams Michael (ENG) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5 Batchuluun Tsegmed (MGL) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 24 Hjartarson Johann (ISL) 0 0 0 Navara David (CZE) 1 1 2 Round 1 Match 25 Eljanov Pavel (UKR) 0 0 0 Lenderman Aleksandr (USA) 1 1 2 Round 1 Match 26 Bacallao Alonso Yusnel (CUB) 1 0 0 0 1 Fedoseev Vladimir (RUS) 0 1 1 1 3 Round 1 Match 27 Gelfand Boris (ISR) 1 ½ 1.5 Stupak Kirill (BLR) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 28 Sadorra Julio Catalino (PHI) 0 ½ 0.5 Matlakov Maxim (RUS) 1 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 29 Ivanchuk Vassily (UKR) ½ ½ 1 1 3 Kazhgaleyev Murtas (KAZ) ½ ½ 0 0 1 Round 1 Match 30 Kulaots Kaido (EST) ½ 0 0.5 Vitiugov Nikita (RUS) ½ 1 1.5 Round 1 Match 31 Vallejo Pons Francisco (ESP) 1 0 1 ½ 2.5 Karthikeyan Murali (IND) 0 1 0 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 32 Fier Alexandr (BRA) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5 Bacrot Etienne (FRA) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5 Round 1 Match 33 Bu Xiangzhi (CHN) 1 1 2 Flores Diego (ARG) 0 0 0 Round 1 Match 34 Antipov Mikhail Al. (RUS) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5 Tomashevsky Evgeny (RUS) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5 Round 1 Match 35 Najer Evgeniy (RUS) 1 ½ 1.5 Aleksandrov Aleksej (BLR) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 36 Pantsulaia Levan (GEO) 0 0 0 Duda Jan-Krzysztof (POL) 1 1 2 Round 1 Match 37 Andreikin Dmitry (RUS) ½ ½ 1 1 3 Goganov Aleksey (RUS) ½ ½ 0 0 1 Round 1 Match 38 Sengupta Deep (IND) ½ 0 0.5 Wang Hao (CHN) ½ 1 1.5 Round 1 Match 39 Inarkiev Ernesto (RUS) 1 ½ 1.5 Mchedlishvili Mikheil (GEO) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 40 Tari Aryan (NOR) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 3.5 Howell David W L (ENG) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2.5 Round 1 Match 41 Cheparinov Ivan (BUL) 1 ½ 1.5 Mastrovasilis Dimitrios (GRE) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 42 Hovhannisyan Robert (ARM) ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5 Rodshtein Maxim (ISR) ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5 Round 1 Match 43 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (IND) ½ 1 1.5 Delgado Ramirez Neuris (PAR) ½ 0 0.5 Round 1 Match 44 Bok Benjamin (NED) 0 0 0 Artemiev Vladislav (RUS) 1 1 2 Round 1 Match 45 Ponomariov Ruslan (UKR) ½ 0 0.5 Sethuraman S.P. (IND) ½ 1 1.5 Round 1 Match 46 Sevian Samuel (USA) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5 Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter (GER) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5 Round 1 Match 47 Jobava Baadur (GEO) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 4.5 Salgado Lopez Ivan (ESP) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 3.5 Round 1 Match 48 Zherebukh Yaroslav (USA) 0 0 0 Onischuk Alexander (USA) 1 1 2 Round 1 Match 49 Amin Bassem (EGY) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 2.5 Erdos Viktor (HUN) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 3.5 Round 1 Match 50 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (VIE) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 2.5 Adhiban B. (IND) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 3.5 Round 1 Match 51 Rapport Richard (HUN) 1 1 2 Cordova Emilio (PER) 0 0 0 Round 1 Match 52 Xiong Jeffery (USA) ½ 0 0.5 Motylev Alexander (RUS) ½ 1 1.5 Round 1 Match 53 Dubov Daniil (RUS) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 3.5 Fridman Daniel (GER) ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2.5 Round 1 Match 54 Kovalenko Igor (LAT) 0 ½ 0.5 Kravtsiv Martyn (UKR) 1 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 55 Akobian Varuzhan (USA) 0 ½ 0.5 Kovalyov Anton (CAN) 1 ½ 1.5 Round 1 Match 56 Cori Jorge (PER) 1 ½ 1.5 Jones Gawain C B (ENG) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 57 Grachev Boris (RUS) ½ ½ ½ 1 2.5 Melkumyan Hrant (ARM) ½ ½ ½ 0 1.5 Round 1 Match 58 Bruzon Batista Lazaro (CUB) 1 ½ 1.5 Anton Guijarro David (ESP) 0 ½ 0.5 Round 1 Match 59 Kuzubov Yuriy (UKR) ½ 1 1.5 Zhigalko Sergei (BLR) ½ 0 0.5 Round 1 Match 60 Piorun Kacper (POL) ½ 0 0.5 Hou Yifan (CHN) ½ 1 1.5 Round 1 Match 61 Areshchenko Alexander (UKR) 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 Demchenko Anton (RUS) 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 Round 1 Match 62 Lenic Luka (SLO) ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 4 Fressinet Laurent (FRA) ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 2 Round 1 Match 63 Mareco Sandro (ARG) ½ 0 0.5 Bluebaum Matthias (GER) ½ 1 1.5 Round 1 Match 64 Bachmann Axel (PAR) 0 0 0 Dreev Aleksey (RUS) 1 1 2
I wouldn’t say “lots” of big names went home. The highest seed to lose was 325 Eljanov.
Eljanov, Howell, Ponomariov, Nisipeanu, Amin Bassem, Gawain Jones, Fressinet, Mareco, Areshchenko. All very strong players.
Hou Yifan the only women left. Against Aronan in the next round is a big ask!