32 participants of the World Cup returned today to the venue to play the first games of the second round. Only 7 games were decisive, while 25 finished in a draw. Magnus Carlsen defeated Alexey Dreev, David Navara won against Ivan Cheparinov, in two Russian derbies Vladimir Kramnik and Vladimir Fedoseev won against Anton Demchenko [...]

The third day of the FIDE World Cup has finished and all the results of the first round are in. The remaining 22 matches continued with playoffs after two classical games. According to the regulations of the World Cup tiebreaks two rapid games are played at a rate of 25 min+10 seconds. If the score [...]

Publishing Pairings for Round 2 Game 1 to be played on September, 6 2017 at 3 PM. WHITE FED. TITLE RATING vs BLACK FED. TITLE RATING Dreev, Aleksey GM 2648 Carlsen, Magnus GM 2827 Bacrot, Etienne GM 2728 Bu, Xiangzhi GM 2714 Svidler, Peter GM 2756 Erdos, Viktor GM 2619 Onischuk, Alexander GM 2682 Wojtaszek, [...]

The second games of the first round were played in Tbilisi on 4th of September. The majority of the top seeds proceeded to the second round by defeating much lower rated opponents. 42 players won their matches after two classical games: Carlsen Magnus (NOR), So Wesley (USA), Caruana Fabiano (USA), Kramnik Vladimir (RUS), Aronian Levon [...]