Breaking News: Judit vs Yifan Hou in the World Cup

I believe that there is a mistake in the pairings. Several GM friends of mine have told me the same thing. We will wait for the confirmation by FIDE.

World Cup 2011 pairings
The 2011 Chess World Cup pairings announced by FIDE

http://www.fide.com/images/stories/NEWS_2011/fide_news/World_Cup_2011/Pairing_List_Round_1.pdf

http://www.fide.com/images/stories/NEWS_2011/fide_news/World_Cup_2011/Pairings_Tree.pdf

The World Chess Cup 2011 will take place 26.08-21.09 in Khanty Mansiysk. It is a knock out competition and includes 128 players. The winner qualifies for the next World Chess Championship Candidates event.

The World Cup 2011 is a long event, where the winner has to progress through seven consecutive match victories and possible tiebreaks to reach the top position. However, the competition also has one of the biggest prize funds, amounting to 1.6$ million.

Last year’s winner Boris Gelfand went on to win the Candidates matches and will play the World Chess Championship 2012.

1 GM Karjakin, Sergey RUS – IM Kaabi, Mejdi TUN
2 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR – FM Steel, Henry Robert RSA
3 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE – Ibrahim, Hatim EGY
4 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR – IM Gwaze, Robert ZIM
5 GM Gashimov, Vugar AZE – FM Quesada Perez, Yasser CUB
6 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS – IM Hansen, Eric CAN
7 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE – IM Genba, Vladimir RUS
8 GM Kamsky, Gata USA – GM De La Paz Perdomo, Frank CUB
9 GM Svidler, Peter RUS – IM Di Berardino, Diego Rafael BRA
10 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS – GM Lima, Darcy BRA
11 GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS – GM Salem, A.R. Saleh UAE
12 GM Almasi, Zoltan HUN – GM Bezgodov, Alexei RUS
13 GM Vallejo Pons, Francisco ESP – GM El Gindy, Essam EGY
14 GM Navara, David CZE – GM Cori, Jorge PER
15 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA – GM Kabanov, Nikolai RUS
16 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB – GM Rahman, Ziaur BAN
17 GM Wang, Hao CHN – GM Moradiabadi, Elshan IRI
18 GM Leko, Peter HUN – GM Ivanov, Alexander USA
19 GM Moiseenko, Alexander UKR – GM Shankland, Samuel L USA
20 GM Le, Quang Liem VIE – GM Esen, Baris TUR
21 GM Adams, Michael ENG – GM Megaranto, Susanto INA
22 GM Shirov, Alexei ESP – GM Paragua, Mark PHI
23 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO – GM Leon Hoyos, Manuel MEX
24 GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA – GM Guliyev, Namig AZE
25 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS – GM Pridorozhni, Aleksei RUS
26 GM Bacrot, Etienne FRA – IM Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynald CUB
27 GM Wang, Yue CHN – GM Robson, Ray USA
28 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS – GM Fier, Alexandr BRA
29 GM Efimenko, Zahar UKR – GM Zhao, Zong-Yuan AUS
30 GM Malakhov, Vladimir RUS – GM Babula, Vlastimil CZE
31 GM Sutovsky, Emil ISR – GM Felgaer, Ruben ARG
32 GM Movsesian, Sergei ARM – GM Vorobiov, Evgeny E. RUS

33 GM Polgar, Judit HUN – GM Hou, Yifan CHN

34 GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA – GM Corrales Jimenez, Fidel CUB
35 GM Eljanov, Pavel UKR – GM Jumabayev, Rinat KAZ
36 GM Berkes, Ferenc HUN – GM Zherebukh, Yaroslav UKR
37 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS – GM Mareco, Sandro ARG
38 GM Morozevich, Alexander RUS – GM Kazhgaleyev, Murtas KAZ
39 GM Zhigalko, Sergei BLR – GM Halkias, Stelios GRE
40 GM Riazantsev, Alexander RUS – GM Filippov, Anton UZB
41 GM Motylev, Alexander RUS – GM Bluvshtein, Mark CAN
42 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL – GM Drozdovskij, Yuri UKR
43 GM Potkin, Vladimir RUS – GM Pashikian, Arman ARM
44 GM Nielsen, Peter Heine DEN – GM Shulman, Yuri USA
45 GM Grachev, Boris RUS – GM Postny, Evgeny ISR
46 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS – GM Romanov, Evgeny RUS
47 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE – GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan ESP
48 GM Kobalia, Mikhail RUS – GM Gupta, Abhijeet IND
49 GM Bologan, Viktor MDA – GM Lysyj, Igor RUS
50 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN – GM Socko, Bartosz POL
51 GM Onischuk, Alexander USA – GM Adly, Ahmed EGY
52 GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB – GM Ivanisevic, Ivan SRB
53 GM Yu, Yangyi CHN – GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian ROU
54 GM Korobov, Anton UKR – GM Zhou, Jianchao CHN
55 GM Harikrishna, P. IND – GM Rodshtein, Maxim ISR
56 GM Li, Chao b CHN – GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son VIE
57 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB – GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU
58 GM Akopian, Vladimir ARM – GM Negi, Parimarjan IND
59 GM Feller, Sebastien FRA – GM Iordachescu, Viorel MDA
60 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS – GM Azarov, Sergei BLR
61 GM Ni, Hua CHN – GM Khairullin, Ildar RUS
62 GM Fridman, Daniel GER – GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU
63 GM Alekseev, Evgeny RUS – GM Ragger, Markus AUT
64 GM So, Wesley PHI – GM Ding, Liren CHN