Here are the pairings for the next round of the knockout World Cup (in red are my top 5 most intriguing matchups):
Ivanchuk, Vassily – Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar – Cheparinov, Ivan
Svidler, Peter – Rublevsky, Sergei
Aronian, Levon – Inarkiev, Ernesto
Shirov, Alexei – Onischuk, Alexander (Fire vs Ice)
Adams, Michael – Zhou, Jianchao
Kamsky, Gata – Georgiev, Kiril
Carlsen, Magnus – Dominguez Perez, Lenier
Akopian, Vladimir – Malakhov, Vladimir
Ponomariov, Ruslan – Tomashevsky, Evgeny
Jakovenko, Dmitry – Almasi, Zoltan
Grischuk, Alexander – Bareev, Evgeny
Alekseev, Evgeny – Fressinet, Laurent
Macieja, Bartlomiej – Sasikiran, Krishnan
Wang, Yue – Bu, Xiangzhi
Bacrot, Etienne – Karjakin, Sergey
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Why didn’t Judit participate in the tourney?
Go Cheparinov!
Don’t forget to highlight the battle of two former youngest Grandmasters: Bacrot and Bu!
Susan;
It should be Wang-Bu
Barcrot-Karjakin
Gata Kamsky :o) RULES!!!!!!!
All of them are excellent players.
The Chinese are surprising in that great number!
okay