Magnus Carlsen 4

In addition to Magnus Carlsen drawing IM Nino Batsiashvili, there were many other huge upsets. Below are just some of the GMs who went down in round 1 against much lower rated players:

GM Wei Yi, Vitiugov, Khismatullin, Tregubov, and Dzagnidze, etc.

http://chess-results.com/tnr199261.aspx

Round 2 top board pairings

Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 2 GM Kramnik Vladimir 2796 1 1 GM Piorun Kacper 2637 39
2 40 GM Grandelius Nils 2632 1 1 GM Giri Anish 2784 3
3 4 GM So Wesley 2775 1 1 GM Naroditsky Daniel 2628 41
4 43 GM Salem A.R. Saleh 2622 1 1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2766 5
5 6 GM Li Chao B 2750 1 1 GM Ipatov Alexander 2619 45
6 46 GM Zhang Zhong 2619 1 1 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2748 7
7 8 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2744 1 1 GM Bluebaum Matthias 2590 51
8 50 GM Bok Benjamin 2594 1 1 GM Yu Yangyi 2736 11
9 14 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2723 1 1 IM Lin Chen 2532 57
10 54 GM Rambaldi Francesco 2560 1 1 GM Korobov Anton 2713 15
11 56 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2542 1 1 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2710 17
12 20 GM Howell David W L 2688 1 1 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2521 61
13 62 GM Al-Sayed Mohammed 2520 1 1 GM Matlakov Maxim 2684 21
14 22 GM Hou Yifan 2683 1 1 GM Harika Dronavalli 2513 63
15 64 GM Sundararajan Kidambi 2513 1 1 GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2663 25
16 26 GM Dubov Daniil 2655 1 1 IM Gagare Shardul 2470 78
17 66 IM Yuffa Daniil 2504 1 1 GM Bologan Viktor 2654 27
18 30 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 2648 1 1 Fang Yuxiang 2438 94
19 79 Xu Yinglun 2470 1 1 GM Sjugirov Sanan 2646 33
20 34 GM Swiercz Dariusz 2646 1 1 Firouzja Alireza 2372 118
21 121 IM Tissir Mohamed 2346 1 1 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2644 35
22 124 Raja Harshit 2325 1 1 GM Sethuraman S.P. 2639 37
23 75 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 2486 ½ ½ GM Carlsen Magnus 2834 1
24 67 IM Batsiashvili Nino 2498 ½ ½ GM Harikrishna P. 2743 9
25 10 GM Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 ½ ½ IM Ma Zhonghan 2463 82
26 16 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2710 ½ ½ IM Tabatabaei M.Amin 2482 76
27 18 GM Ni Hua 2693 ½ ½ IM Sagar Shah 2441 90
28 89 IM Puranik Abhimanyu 2442 ½ ½ GM Moiseenko Alexander 2689 19
29 85 IM Lorparizangeneh Shahin 2454 ½ ½ GM Adhiban B. 2669 23
30 24 GM Fedoseev Vladimir 2664 ½ ½ IM Ali Marandi Cemil Can 2454 84
31 97 GM Carlsson Pontus 2433 ½ ½ GM Akopian Vladimir 2648 29
32 95 IM Padmini Rout 2437 ½ ½ GM Khairullin Ildar 2647 31
33 32 GM Shankland Samuel L 2646 ½ ½ IM Vignesh N R 2422 102
34 36 GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2642 ½ ½ FM Abdusattorov Nodirbek 2429 98
35 38 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2638 ½ ½ IM Saiyn Zhanat 2394 108
36 42 GM Lenderman Aleksandr 2626 ½ ½ FM Haria Ravi 2416 104
37 44 GM Bartel Mateusz 2620 ½ ½ IM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 2380 114
38 115 IM Karavade Eesha 2379 ½ ½ GM Lu Shanglei 2618 47
39 48 GM Hamdouchi Hicham 2597 ½ ½ IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen 2319 126
40 113 IM Christiansen Johan-Sebastian 2385 ½ ½ GM Vocaturo Daniele 2597 49
41 125 WGM Pourkashiyan Atousa 2322 ½ ½ GM Esen Baris 2562 53
42 131 WGM Bartel Marta 2271 ½ ½ GM Xu Jun 2526 59
43 60 GM Bromberger Stefan 2521 ½ ½ WGM Abdumalik Zhansaya 2390 110
44 119 Roy Prantik 2370 ½ ½ GM Schroeder Jan-Christian 2511 65
45 12 GM Wei Yi 2730 0 0 FM Basso Pier Luigi 2438 93
46 99 FM Rohan Ahuja 2426 0 0 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2724 13
47 28 GM Khismatullin Denis 2654 0 0 IM Aryan Chopra 2436 96
48 52 GM Tregubov Pavel V. 2589 0 0 IM Nezad Husein Aziz 2425 100
49 101 IM Seyb Alexander 2425 0 0 GM Dzagnidze Nana 2559 55
50 58 IM Svane Rasmus 2529 0 0 FM Gholami Aryan 2422 103
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