Round 1 results
| Aronian, Levon | – Kramnik, Vladimir | 1-0 |
| Karjakin, Sergey | – Gelfand, Boris | 1-0 |
| Grischuk, Alexander | – Eljanov, Pavel | 1-0 |
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | – Nakamura, Hikaru | ½ |
| Shirov, Alexei | – Wang Hao | 0-1 |
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Kramnik lost? Impossible.