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
    2017-09-02T14:10:29+00:00