Photo by Fred Lucas (http://www.fredlucas.eu/gallery/c2/)

I will do LIVE commentary of the Carlsen – Radjabov game right here tomorrow. I will also point out some other interesting games.

Here are round 1 matchups in all 3 groups:

Group A


Magnus Carlsen – Teymour Radjabov

Gata Kamsky – Michael Adams

Levon Aronian – Wang Yue

Sergei Karjakin – Alexander Morozevich

Vassily Ivanchuk – Jan Smeets

Loek van Wely – Leinier Dominguez

Daniël Stellwagen – Sergei Movsesian

Group B


Hou Yifan – R. Kasimdzhanov

Krishnan Sasikiran – Erwin l’Ami

Andrei Volokitin – Fabiano Caruana

Dimitri Reinderman – Francisco Vallejo

Henrique Mecking – Zahar Efimenko

Nigel Short – Jan Werle

Alexander Motylev – David Navara

Groups C


Friso Nijboer – Wesley So

T. Hillarp Persson – Pruijssers

David Howell – Manuel Bosboom

Eduardo Iturrizaga – M. Leon Hoyos

Oleg Romanishin – Ali Bitalzadeh

Anish Giri – Frank Holzke

Abhijeet Gupta – Dronavalli Harika

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