The best match of round 1:
| 3 | ShSM-64 | 3.5 – 2.5 | Tomsk-400 | 8 | |||||
| 1 | 2750 | Gelfand, Boris | 0.5 – 0.5 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | 2737 | 1 | |||
| 2 | 2725 | Karjakin, Sergey | 1 – 0 | Motylev, Alexander | 2705 | 2 | |||
| 3 | 2715 | Wang, Hao | 0.5 – 0.5 | Bologan, Viktor | 2684 | 3 | |||
| 4 | 2680 | Caruana, Fabiano | 0.5 – 0.5 | Inarkiev, Ernesto | 2667 | 5 | |||
| 5 | 2667 | Grachev, Boris | 0.5 – 0.5 | Khismatullin, Denis | 2657 | 6 | |||
| 7 | 2665 | Najer, Evgeniy | 0.5 – 0.5 | Timofeev, Artyom | 2655 | 7 |
Full results here: http://www.russiachess.org/results/2010/pl/pairings_teams_players&1.html
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
What a lineup!