FIDE WORLD CHESS CUP 2017

Aronian is the winner.

FIDE World Chess Cup took place in Tbilisi, Georgia with 128 players from 2nd – 27th September, 2017

Rules: Knock-Out system tournament. 2 games. If tie break needed, two (2) tie-break games shall be played. 25mn + 10 sec/move

If there is not still any winner , two (2) tie-break games 10mn + 10 sec/move. In case of a level score, another match of 2 games shall be played with a time control of 5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment after each move. If still there is no winner, one sudden-death game will be played .

RESULTS

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Players in bold are qualified to the next round.

Aronian is the winner.

FINAL
Game 1	Aronian, Levon - Ding, Liren	0.5 - 0.5	English opening
Game 2	Ding, Liren - Aronian, Levon	0.5 - 0.5	Catalan
Game 3	Aronian, Levon - Ding, Liren	0.5 - 0.5	English opening
Game 4	Ding, Liren - Aronian, Levon	0.5 - 0.5	Queen's gambit dec. Ragozin var.
Tie-break Game 1 (25 mn + 10 sec)	Aronian, Levon - Ding, Liren	1 - 0	Queen's gambit dec. Semi-Slav
Tie-break Game 2 (25 mn + 10 sec)	Ding, Liren - Aronian, Levon	0 - 1	Queen's gambit dec. Ragozin var.
Aronian - Ding : 4-2

1/2 FINAL
Players				aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
	Aronian, Levon		Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	5 - 4	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 1-0	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0
	So, Wesley		Ding, Liren	2.5 - 3.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5

ROUND 5
Players				aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
	Svidler, Peter		Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
	Aronian, Levon		Ivanchuk, Vassily	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
	Fedoseev, Vladimir		So, Wesley	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
	Rapport, Richard		Ding, Liren	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1

ROUND 4
Players				aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
	Svidler, Peter		Bu, Xiangzhi	3 - 1	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 1-0
	So, Wesley		Jobava, Baadur	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
	Rapport, Richard		Najer, Evgeniy	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
	Ivanchuk, Vassily		Giri, Anish	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
	Dubov, Daniil		Aronian, Levon	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
	Wang, Hao		Ding, Liren	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
	Rodshtein, Maxim		Fedoseev, Vladimir	1 - 3	0-1 // 1-0	0-1 // 0-1
	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime		Grischuk, Alexander	3.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5

ROUND 3
Players	aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Carlsen Magnus (NOR) - Bu Xiangzhi (CHN)	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1
Vallejo Pons Francisco (ESP) - So Wesley (USA)	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Caruana Fabiano (USA) - Najer Evgeniy (RUS)	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Ivanchuk Vassily (UKR) - Kramnik Vladimir (RUS)	1.5 - 0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Aronian Levon (ARM) - Matlakov Maxim (RUS)	4.5 - 3.5	1-0 // 0-1	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0-1	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Wang Hao (CHN) - Kuzubov Yuriy (UKR)	1.5 - 0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Nakamura Hikaru (USA) - Fedoseev Vladimir (RUS)	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Lenderman Aleksandr (USA) - Vachier-Lagrave Maxime (FRA)	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5

ROUND 3
Players	aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Grischuk Alexander (RUS) - Navara David (CZE)	3.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Rodshtein Maxim (ISR) - Kovalyov Anton (CAN)	Rodshtein won by forfeit	1-0 // 1-0
Ding Liren (CHN) - Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (IND)	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Artemiev Vladislav (RUS) - Dubov Daniil (RUS)	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Giri Anish (NED) - Sethuraman S.P. (IND)	4 - 2	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 1-0	1-0 // 1-0
Li Chao b (CHN) - Rapport Richard (HUN)	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Nepomniachtchi Ian (RUS) - Jobava Baadur (GEO)	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Onischuk Alexander (USA) - Svidler Peter (RUS)	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1

ROUND 2
Players	aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Dreev, Aleksey - Carlsen, Magnus	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1
Bacrot, Etienne - Bu, Xiangzhi	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Svidler, Peter - Erdos, Viktor	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Onischuk, Alexander - Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - Grachev, Boris	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Tari, Aryan - Lenderman, Aleksandr	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Cori, Jorge - Grischuk, Alexander	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Navara, David - Cheparinov, Ivan	3 - 1	1-0 // 0-1	1-0 // 1-0

ROUND 2
Players	aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Kramnik, Vladimir - Demchenko, Anton	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Duda, Jan-Krzysztof - Ivanchuk, Vassily	2.5 - 3.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5
Motylev, Alexander - Giri, Anish	2 - 4	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0-1
Harikrishna, P. - Sethuraman, S.P.	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Hou, Yifan - Aronian, Levon	2 - 4	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0-1
Matlakov, Maxim - Andreikin, Dmitry	5 - 3	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0 -1	1-0 // 1-0
Karjakin, Sergey - Dubov, Daniil	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Artemiev, Vladislav - Radjabov, Teimour	4.5 - 3.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0-1	;0-1 // 1-0	1-0 // 0.5-0.5

ROUND 2
Players	aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
So, Wesley - Bluebaum, Matthias	4 - 2	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 1-0
Tomashevsky, Evgeny - Vallejo Pons, Francisco	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Adhiban, B. - Nepomniachtchi, Ian	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Yu, Yangyi - Jobava, Baadur	2 - 4	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0-1
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro - Nakamura, Hikaru	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Fedoseev, Vladimir - Inarkiev, Ernesto	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Anand, Viswanathan - Kovalyov, Anton	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Rodshtein, Maxim - Adams, Michael	1.5 - 0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0

ROUND 2
Players	aggregate	games 90 mn	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Lenic, Luka - Caruana, Fabiano	2 - 4	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0-1
Vitiugov, Nikita - Najer, Evgeniy	1 - 3	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0-1
Wei, Yi - Rapport, Richard	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Sevian, Samuel - Li, Chao b	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Kuzubov, Yuriy	1 - 3	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5
Wang, Hao - Gelfand, Boris	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Kravtsiv, Martyn - Ding, Liren	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Le, Quang Liem - Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5

ROUND 1
Players	aggregate	Classical games 1st // 2nd	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Carlsen, Magnus - Balogun, Oluwafemi	2 - 0	1-0 // 1-0
Ruiz Castillo, Joshua Daniel - So, Wesley	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Caruana, Fabiano - Solomon, Kenny	2 - 0	1-0 // 1-0
Dai, Changren - Kramnik, Vladimir	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Aronian, Levon - Cawdery, Daniel	2 - 0	1-0 // 1-0
Liu, Guanchu - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Nakamura, Hikaru - Mollah Abdullah, Al Rakib	2 - 0	1-0 // 1-0
Khusenkhojaev, Muhammad - Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1

ROUND 1
Players	aggregate	games Classical	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Grischuk, Alexander - El Gindy, Essam	2 - 0	1-0 // 1-0
Yeoh, Li Tian - Anand, Viswanathan	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Ding, Liren - Haddouche, Mohamed	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Smirnov, Anton - Karjakin, Sergey	1 - 3	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0-1
Giri, Anish - Dzagnidze, Nana	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Sambuev, Bator - Wei, Yi	1.5 - 2.5	1-0 // 0-1	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Nepomniachtchi, Ian - Palac, Mladen	3.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Vakhidov, Jakhongir - Svidler, Peter	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1

ROUND 1
Players	aggregate	games Classical	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw - El Debs, Felipe de Cresce	1.5 - 0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Pourramezanali, Amirreza - Yu, Yangyi	1 - 3	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0-1
Li, Chao - Krysa, Leandro	1.5 - 0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Gonzalez Vidal, Yuri - Harikrishna, P.	2.5 - 3.5	1-0 // 0-1	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Radjabov, Teimour - Ziska, Helgi Dam	1.5 - 0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Kunin, Vitaly - Le, Quang Liem	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Adams, Michael - Batchuluun, Tsegmed	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Hjartarson, Johann - Navara, David	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1

ROUND 1
Players	aggregate	games Classical	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Eljanov, Pavel - Lenderman, Aleksandr	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1
Bacallao Alonso, Yusnel - Fedoseev, Vladimir	1 - 3	1-0 // 0-1	0-1 // 0-1
Gelfand, Boris - Stupak, Kirill	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Sadorra, Julio Catalino - Matlakov, Maxim	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Kazhgaleyev, Murtas	3 - 1	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 1-0
Kulaots, Kaido - Vitiugov, Nikita	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Vallejo Pons, Francisco - Karthikeyan, Murali	2.5 - 1.5	1-0 // 0-1	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Fier, Alexandr - Bacrot, Etienne	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5

ROUND 1
Players	aggregate	games Classical	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Bu, Xiangzhi - Flores, Diego	2 - 0	1-0 // 1-0
Antipov, Mikhail Al. - Tomashevsky, Evgeny	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Najer, Evgeniy - Aleksandrov, Aleksej	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Pantsulaia, Levan - Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1
Andreikin, Dmitry - Goganov, Aleksey	3 - 1	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 1-0
Sengupta, Deep - Wang, Hao	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Inarkiev, Ernesto - Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Tari, Aryan - Howell, David W L	3.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0

ROUND 1
Players	aggregate	games Classical	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Cheparinov, Ivan - Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 //0.5-0.5
Hovhannisyan, Robert - Rodshtein, Maxim	1.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi - Delgado Ramirez, Neuris	1.5 - 0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Bok, Benjamin - Artemiev, Vladislav	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1
Ponomariov, Ruslan - Sethuraman, S.P.	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Sevian, Samuel - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Jobava, Baadur - Salgado Lopez, Ivan	4.5 - 3.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 0-1	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Zherebukh, Yaroslav - Onischuk, Alexander	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1

ROUND 1
Players	aggregate	games Classical	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Amin, Bassem - Erdos, Viktor		0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son - Adhiban, B.	2.5 - 3.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Rapport, Richard - Cordova, Emilio	2 - 0	1-0 // 1-0
Xiong, Jeffery - Motylev, Alexander	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Dubov, Daniil - Fridman, Daniel	3.5 - 2.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Kovalenko, Igor - Kravtsiv, Martyn	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Akobian, Varuzhan - Kovalyov, Anton	0.5 - 1.5	0-1 // 0.5-0.5
Cori, Jorge - Jones, Gawain C B	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5

ROUND 1
Players	aggregate	games Classical	Tie-break Rapid 25 mn	Tie-break Rapid 10 mn	Tie-break Blitz 5 mn	Armageddon 5mn vs 4mn
Grachev, Boris - Melkumyan, Hrant	2.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 1-0
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro - Anton Guijarro, David	1.5 - 0.5	1-0 // 0.5-0.5
Kuzubov, Yuriy - Zhigalko, Sergei	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Piorun, Kacper - Hou, Yifan	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Areshchenko, Alexander - Demchenko, Anton	2 - 4	1-0 // 0-1	0-1 // 1-0	0-1 // 0-1
Lenic, Luka - Fressinet, Laurent	4 - 2	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	0.5-0.5 // 0.5-0.5	1-0 // 1-0
Mareco, Sandro - Bluebaum, Matthias	0.5 - 1.5	0.5-0.5 // 0-1
Bachmann, Axel - Dreev, Aleksey	0 - 2	0-1 // 0-1

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