Chess World Cup Round 2

The initial day of the World Cup’s second round see quite a amount of huge upsets. Svidler lost with Black next to Nyback, Morozevich go down with the white pieces next to Laznicka, Sakaev beaten Radjabov, Ivanchuk lost to So and Inarkiev beaten Eljanov.

It was the world advantage down today in Khanty-Mansyisk. The first seven ranking favorites score only 1.5 points and big names such as Ivanchuk, Svidler, Morozevich and Radjabov are in risk of an early on knockout.

Top seed player Boris Gelfand was once more the first to conclude his match today. Besides his famed match after match approach, his policy in Khanty-Mansyisk is obvious draw with Black, try to succeed with White, and save power wherever probable. His Petroff next to Amonatov lasted immediately twelve moves, so the Israeli grandmaster obviously bets on his White game.

Zhou Jianchao played an outstanding match next to Gashimov; in a Berlin Wall the Chinese 21-year-old even play a positional swap sacrifice that kind of compulsory the draw right away when Gashimov decided to go for an finish with opposite-coloured bishops.

The third distress was Alexander Morozevich going down next to Viktor Laznicka from the Czech Republic. The world’s number 10 try to trick his challenger but Laznicka willingly fell for it he got a pawn and the bishop pair for the missing exchange, and then duly win when got a approved pawn on the queenside.

The biggest surprise maybe was the loss of Vassily Ivanchuk, the favorite to win this World Cup. It seem that the Ukrainian was totally outplaying his Pinoy challenger, but when he couldn’t discover the knockout blow he ought to almost certainly have taken the draw. Instead, in awful timetrouble previously, Chuky determined to play on but then lost in the finish.

Ernesto Inarkiev, who was a bit fortunate to be eligible in yesterday’s tie breaks next to Gustafsson, sustained very well by defeat 84 points higher rated Pavel Eljanov White powerplay in the Berlin partition this instance.