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Here are some intriguing matchups in round 2:
32 Polgar – 33 Nisipeanu (the battle between friends)
29 Bologan – 36 Cheparinov (you can expect fireworks in this match)
50 Caruana – 15 Dominguez (can Fabiano upset the top former world blitz champion?)
30 Naiditsch – 35 Onischuk (I expect this to be a hotly contested battle)
6 Ivanchuk – 59 So (the experience vs. the young Filipino phenom)
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Bot So and Caruana will win their matches.
i expect invanchuk to win his games.. i go for the ukraine players since i have some ukraine heritage.. tell chucky to eat his perogies..lol
I wonder if Sutovsky lost , so he would have to play his good friend Kamsky in rd. 2 ?
A much better pairing tree
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Remember there was a Filipino phenom, the late Grandmaster Rosendo Balinas who won the 1976 Odessa, USSR now Ukraine, International Chess Tournament.
The Great Filipino Balinas defeated all the best Ukrainian players at the time, in Odessa, Ukraine!! -Ukraine Champion Vladimir Savon who was also the Absolute Russian Champion during the time, Vladimir Tukmakov, Anatoly Lutikov, Constantin Lerner.
Yefim Geller and David Bronstein paid homage to the small but terrible Balinas during the award ceremony.
Bronstein told Balinas, “even though you are an admirer of Botvinnik, not me, I will always remember your achievement here in Odessa.”
The spirit of Balinas will be with Wesley So when he defeats the great but now old Ivanchuk.