The second round tie-breaks started with 22 matches on the 8th of September at 3 pm local time. After two rapid games 14 encounters were over and Ding Liren, David Navara, Yuriy Kuzubov, S.P. Sethuraman, Alexander Onischuk, Wang Hao, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Evgeniy Najer, Peter Svidler, Richard Rapport, Li Chao and Bu [...]

Publishing Pairings of the Round 3 Game 1. Round starts at 3 PM September, 9 2017. WHITE FED. TITLE RATING vs BLACK FED. TITLE RATING Carlsen, Magnus GM 2827 Bu, Xiangzhi GM 2714 Vallejo Pons, Francisco GM 2717 So, Wesley GM 2792 Caruana, Fabiano GM 2799 Najer, Evgeniy GM 2694 Ivanchuk, Vassily GM [...]

The return games of the second round of the World Cup were completed in the Hualing Hotel in Tbilisi. Despite the elimination of 64 players in the first round, tomorrow we are going to see the same number of tie-break matches as in the previous tie-break day - 22. Magnus Carlsen defeated Alexei Dreev and [...]

Publishings Pairings for Tie-Breaks of Round 2. 22 Matches. Start at 3PM. WHITE FED. TITLE RATING vs BLACK FED. TITLE RATING So, Wesley GM 2792 Bluebaum, Matthias GM 2633 Lenic, Luka GM 2646 Caruana, Fabiano GM 2799 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar GM 2797 Kuzubov, Yuriy GM 2688 Aronian, Levon GM 2802 Hou, Yifan GM 2670 [...]