2nd ACP World Rapid Cup
Odessa, Ukraine
Round 1 Day 1 (Jan 4, 2008)
Eljanov, Pavel 0.5-1.5 Ivanchuk, Vassily
Radjabov, Teimour 1.5-0.5 Drozdovskij, Yuri
Shirov, Alexei 0.5-1.5 Inarkiev, Ernesto
Savchenko, Boris 0-2 Jakovenko,Dmitry
World Cup Finalist Alexei Shirov was eliminated by GM Inarkiev.
Peter Svidler, Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand, Sergey Karjakin, Judit Polgar, Anatoly Karpov, Evgeny Najer and Alexander Shabalov will play tomorrow.
Official website: http://worldcup.pivdenny.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
S.P. would never call this result an upset. Not even Inarkiev, who we know as one of the World’s best rapid players would call it an upset. Who is posting these titles, anyway??
It’s a huge upset. Shirov is da man!