Top 25 board round 1 matchups:
| Table | White | Flags | Score | Fed. | Rating | Black | Flags | Score | Fed. | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Andriasian, Zaven | 0.0 | ARM | 2613 | GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 0.0 | FRA | 2730 | |||
| 2 | GM Bacrot, Etienne | 0.0 | FRA | 2713 | GM Potkin, Vladimir | 0.0 | RUS | 2611 | |||
| 3 | GM Shabalov, Alexander | 0.0 | USA | 2611 | GM Motylev, Alexander | 0.0 | RUS | 2697 | |||
| 4 | GM Kamsky, Gata | 0.0 | USA | 2693 | GM Sjugirov, Sanan | 0.0 | RUS | 2610 | |||
| 5 | GM Khairullin, Ildar | 0.0 | RUS | 2605 | GM Volokitin, Andrei | 0.0 | UKR | 2692 | |||
| 6 | GM Naiditsch, Arkadij | 0.0 | GER | 2687 | GM Ehlvest, Jaan | 0.0 | USA | 2600 | |||
| 7 | GM Zhou, Weiqi | 0.0 | CHN | 2600 | GM Sargissian, Gabriel | 0.0 | ARM | 2680 | |||
| 8 | GM Moiseenko, Alexander | 0.0 | UKR | 2677 | GM Romanov, Evgeny | 0.0 | RUS | 2599 | |||
| 9 | GM Belov, Vladimir | 0.0 | RUS | 2595 | GM Bu, Xiangzhi | 0.0 | CHN | 2673 | |||
| 10 | GM Smirin, Ilia | 0.0 | ISR | 2668 | GM Lenic, Luka | 0.0 | SLO | 2595 | |||
| 11 | GM Bocharov, Dmitry | 0.0 | RUS | 2594 | GM Zhigalko, Sergei | 0.0 | BLR | 2668 | |||
| 12 | GM Najer, Evgeniy | 0.0 | RUS | 2665 | GM Safarli, Eltaj | 0.0 | AZE | 2594 | |||
| 13 | GM Lopez Martinez, Josep Manu | 0.0 | ESP | 2593 | GM Cheparinov, Ivan | 0.0 | BUL | 2660 | |||
| 14 | GM Vescovi, Giovanni | 0.0 | BRA | 2660 | GM Maletin, Pavel | 0.0 | RUS | 2591 | |||
| 15 | GM Rakhmanov, Aleksandr | 0.0 | RUS | 2591 | GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 0.0 | RUS | 2658 | |||
| 16 | GM Efimenko, Zahar | 0.0 | UKR | 2657 | GM Hou, Yifan | w | 0.0 | CHN | 2590 | ||
| 17 | GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan | 0.0 | IRI | 2589 | GM So, Wesley | 0.0 | PHI | 2656 | |||
| 18 | GM Grachev, Boris | 0.0 | RUS | 2653 | GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan | 0.0 | ESP | 2584 | |||
| 19 | GM Melkumyan, Hrant | 0.0 | ARM | 2583 | GM Sasikiran, Krishnan | 0.0 | IND | 2653 | |||
| 20 | GM Timofeev, Artyom | 0.0 | RUS | 2652 | GM Feller, Sebastien | 0.0 | FRA | 2579 | |||
| 21 | GM Svetushkin, Dmitry | 0.0 | MDA | 2573 | GM Dreev, Alexey | 0.0 | RUS | 2650 | |||
| 22 | GM Korobov, Anton | 0.0 | UKR | 2648 | GM Yudin, Sergei | 0.0 | RUS | 2573 | |||
| 23 | GM Ragger, Markus | 0.0 | AUT | 2568 | GM Le, Quang Liem | 0.0 | VIE | 2647 | |||
| 24 | GM Pashikian, Arman | 0.0 | ARM | 2647 | GM Vazquez Igarza, Renier | 0.0 | ESP | 2563 | |||
| 25 | GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan | 0.0 | CHI | 2561 | GM Bareev, Evgeny | 0.0 | RUS | 2643 |
Full pairings here.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
This is one heck of a tournament. The world open is total joke compare to the Aeroflot Open.
Well…HELLO!!!
World Open has never ever been what the name would suggest. There are tens of open tournaments that have more quality than “world” open.