Round 1 Game 1 Pairings

The drawing of lots ceremony took place in Funicular restaurant of Tbilisi. The reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen (Norway) picked white colour.

Round 1 Game 1 pairings are published below. Players will switch colours in Round 1 Game 2.

* September 2017 Ratings

WHITE	FED.	TITLE	RATING	vs	BLACK	FED.	TITLE	RATING
Carlsen, Magnus		GM	2827		Balogun, Oluwafemi		FM	2255
Ruiz Castillo, Joshua Daniel		IM	2377		So, Wesley		GM	2792
Caruana, Fabiano		GM	2799		Solomon, Kenny		GM	2398
Dai, Changren			2422		Kramnik, Vladimir		GM	2803
Aronian, Levon		GM	2802		Cawdery, Daniel		IM	2449
Liu, Guanchu		IM	2455		Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar		GM	2797
Nakamura, Hikaru		GM	2781		Mollah Abdullah, Al Rakib		GM	2454
Khusenkhojaev, Muhammad		IM	2455		Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime		GM	2804
Grischuk, Alexander		GM	2788		El Gindy, Essam		GM	2455
Yeoh, Li Tian		IM	2478		Anand, Viswanathan		GM	2794
Ding, Liren		GM	2771		Haddouche, Mohamed		GM	2487
Smirnov, Anton		IM	2508		Karjakin, Sergey		GM	2780
Giri, Anish		GM	2777		Dzagnidze, Nana		GM	2519
Sambuev, Bator		GM	2529		Wei, Yi		GM	2748
Nepomniachtchi, Ian		GM	2741		Palac, Mladen		GM	2535
Vakhidov, Jakhongir		GM	2518		Svidler, Peter		GM	2756
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw		GM	2739		El Debs, Felipe de Cresce		GM	2533
Pourramezanali, Amirreza		GM	2534		Yu, Yangyi		GM	2750
Li, Chao b		GM	2745		Krysa, Leandro		GM	2540
Gonzalez Vidal, Yuri		GM	2547		Harikrishna, P.		GM	2741
Radjabov, Teimour		GM	2742		Ziska, Helgi Dam		GM	2545
Kunin, Vitaly		GM	2531		Le, Quang Liem		GM	2739
Adams, Michael		GM	2738		Batchuluun, Tsegmed		GM	2566
Hjartarson, Johann		GM	2539		Navara, David		GM	2720
Eljanov, Pavel		GM	2734		Lenderman, Aleksandr		GM	2565
Bacallao Alonso, Yusnel		GM	2573		Fedoseev, Vladimir		GM	2731
Gelfand, Boris		GM	2737		Stupak, Kirill		GM	2579
Sadorra, Julio Catalino		GM	2574		Matlakov, Maxim		GM	2728
Ivanchuk, Vassily		GM	2727		Kazhgaleyev, Murtas		GM	2570
Kulaots, Kaido		GM	2571		Vitiugov, Nikita		GM	2728
Vallejo Pons, Francisco		GM	2717		Karthikeyan, Murali		GM	2574
Fier, Alexandr		GM	2569		Bacrot, Etienne		GM	2728
Bu, Xiangzhi		GM	2714		Flores, Diego		GM	2580
Antipov, Mikhail Al.		GM	2578		Tomashevsky, Evgeny		GM	2710
Najer, Evgeniy		GM	2694		Aleksandrov, Aleksej		GM	2580
Pantsulaia, Levan		GM	2593		Duda, Jan-Krzysztof		GM	2698
Andreikin, Dmitry		GM	2708		Goganov, Aleksey		GM	2567
Sengupta, Deep		GM	2589		Wang, Hao		GM	2701
Inarkiev, Ernesto		GM	2694		Mchedlishvili, Mikheil		GM	2607
Tari, Aryan		GM	2588		Howell, David W L		GM	2701
Cheparinov, Ivan		GM	2695		Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios		GM	2573
Hovhannisyan, Robert		GM	2594		Rodshtein, Maxim		GM	2695
Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi		GM	2702		Delgado Ramirez, Neuris		GM	2614
Bok, Benjamin		GM	2620		Artemiev, Vladislav		GM	2692
Ponomariov, Ruslan		GM	2694		Sethuraman, S.P.		GM	2617
Sevian, Samuel		GM	2610		Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter		GM	2674
Jobava, Baadur		GM	2702		Salgado Lopez, Ivan		GM	2627
Zherebukh, Yaroslav		GM	2621		Onischuk, Alexander		GM	2682
Amin, Bassem		GM	2699		Erdos, Viktor		GM	2619
Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son		GM	2629		Adhiban, B.		GM	2670
Rapport, Richard		GM	2675		Cordova, Emilio		GM	2616
Xiong, Jeffery		GM	2633		Motylev, Alexander		GM	2668
Dubov, Daniil		GM	2666		Fridman, Daniel		GM	2625
Kovalenko, Igor		GM	2634		Kravtsiv, Martyn		GM	2670
Akobian, Varuzhan		GM	2662		Kovalyov, Anton		GM	2649
Cori, Jorge		GM	2648		Jones, Gawain C B		GM	2668
Grachev, Boris		GM	2654		Melkumyan, Hrant		GM	2642
Bruzon Batista, Lazaro		GM	2651		Anton Guijarro, David		GM	2656
Kuzubov, Yuriy		GM	2688		Zhigalko, Sergei		GM	2642
Piorun, Kacper		GM	2644		Hou, Yifan		GM	2670
Areshchenko, Alexander		GM	2645		Demchenko, Anton		GM	2650
Lenic, Luka		GM	2646		Fressinet, Laurent		GM	2657
Mareco, Sandro		GM	2649		Bluebaum, Matthias		GM	2633
Bachmann, Axel		GM	2634		Dreev, Aleksey		GM	2648

Round 1 Game 1 Pairings

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