Chess World Cup 2013: Difference between revisions

The Chess World Cup 2013 is a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 5 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway.^[1][2]

Matches consist of two games (except for the final, which consists of four). Players have 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move from move one. If the match is tied after the regular games, tie breaks are played on the next day. The format for the tie breaks is as follows:

• Two rapid games (25 minutes plus 10 seconds increment) will be played.
• If the score is still tied, two rapid games (10 minutes plus 10 seconds increment) will be played.
• If the score is still tied, the opponents will play two blitz games (5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment).
• If the score is still tied after a pair of blitz games, a single armageddon game (White must win, Black only needs to draw) will be played. White will have five minutes and Black will have four minutes, and both players will have a three seconds per move increment beginning with move 61.

In the final the regulation is the same, except that instead of two games with slow time control the finalists are to play four. The two "tickets" to the 2014 Candidates Tournament are given to the finalists.

The players participating in the event are (August 2013 FIDE rating):^[3]

All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.

Qualification paths:

Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, and Veselin Topalov qualified for the event, but they declined to participate. The only other player from the world's top 30 who will not participate is Ding Liren.^[4] Aronian (who declined to play in 2009 and 2011) and Kramnik (who has never played in a Chess World Cup) chose to participate because FIDE made participation in either the Chess World Cup or the Grand Prix series mandatory for qualification to the 2014 Candidates Tournament through rating.^[5]

	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	1	Levon Aronian	2
	128	Mikhail Markov	0
						1	Levon Aronian
						64	Igor Lysyj
	64	Igor Lysyj	1½
	65	Andrei Istrăţescu	½
	32	Evgeny Tomashevsky	1
	97	Alejandro Ramírez	1
						33	Wesley So
	33	Wesley So	1½
	96	Alexander Ipatov	½
	16	Alexander Morozevich	1
	113	Bator Sambuev	1
	49	Ernesto Inarkiev	1
	80	Rafael Leitão	1
	17	Nikita Vitiugov	2
	112	Conrad Holt	0
						17	Nikita Vitiugov
	48	Markus Ragger	0
	81	Ivan Popov	1

	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	8	Gata Kamsky	1
	121	Lou Yiping	1
	57	Aleksandr Shimanov	1
	72	Gawain Jones	1
	25	David Navara	1½
	104	Sandro Mareco	½
						25	David Navara
	40	Sergei Movsesian	1
	89	Jon Ludvig Hammer	1
	9	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	1½
	120	Samy Shoker	½
						9	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
						56	Maxim Matlakov
	56	Maxim Matlakov	1½
	73	Jan Smeets	½
	24	Ian Nepomniachtchi	½
	105	Wei Yi	1½
						105	Wei Yi
	41	Alexei Shirov	1
	88	Hou Yifan	1

	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	4	Alexander Grischuk	2
	125	Igor Bjelobrk	0
						4	Alexander Grischuk
	61	Vadim Zvjaginsev	1
	68	Dariusz Świercz	1
	29	Le Quang Liem	2
	100	Oliver Barbosa	0
						29	Le Quang Liem
						36	Francisco Vallejo Pons
	36	Francisco Vallejo Pons	2
	93	Diego Flores	0
	13	Peter Svidler	1
	116	Anna Ushenina	1
	52	Victor Bologan	1
	77	Zbyněk Hráček	1
	20	Teimour Radjabov	1
	109	Jorge Cori	1
	45	Lázaro Bruzón	1
	84	Evgeniy Najer	1

	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	5	Sergey Karjakin	1½
	124	Ali Sebbar	½
						5	Sergey Karjakin
	60	Krishnan Sasikiran	1
	69	Constantin Lupulescu	1
	28	Dmitry Jakovenko	2
	101	Mark Paragua	0
						28	Dmitry Jakovenko
						37	Pavel Eljanov
	37	Pavel Eljanov	1½
	92	Sabino Brunello	½
	12	Wang Hao	1½
	117	Liu Qingnan	½
						12	Wang Hao
	53	Alexey Dreev	1
	76	Sergei Azarov	1
	21	Dmitry Andreikin	1
	108	Darini Pouria	1
						85	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
	44	Vladimir Akopian	½
	85	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	1½

	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	2	Fabiano Caruana	1½
	127	G. Akash	½
						2	Fabiano Caruana
	63	Yu Yangyi	1
	66	Alexander Beliavsky	1
	31	Vladimir Malakhov	1½
	98	Eric Hansen	½
						31	Vladimir Malakhov
						34	Laurent Fressinet
	34	Laurent Fressinet	1½
	95	Larry Christiansen	½
	15	Peter Leko	1½
	114	Leif Erlend Johannessen	½
						15	Peter Leko
	50	Julio Granda	1
	79	Hrant Melkumyan	1
	18	Anish Giri	1½
	111	Saleh Salem	½
						18	Anish Giri
	47	Li Chao	1
	82	Evgeny Postny	1

	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	7	Boris Gelfand	1
	122	Ziaur Rahman	0
						71	Anton Filippov
	58	Evgeny Romanov	½
	71	Anton Filippov	1½
	26	Étienne Bacrot	2
	103	Simen Agdestein	0
						26	Étienne Bacrot
						39	Alexander Moiseenko
	39	Alexander Moiseenko	w/o
	90	Ahmed Adly[6]	w/d
	10	Leinier Domínguez Pérez	2
	119	Essam El Gindy	0
						10	Leinier Domínguez Pérez
						55	Alexander Onischuk
	55	Alexander Onischuk	1½
	74	Eduardo Iturrizaga	½
	23	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2
	106	Alexander Shabalov	0
						23	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
	42	Judit Polgár	0
	87	Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez	1

	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	3	Vladimir Kramnik	2
	126	Gillan Bwalya	0
						3	Vladimir Kramnik
	62	Denis Khismatullin	1
	67	Mikhail Kobalia	1
	30	Alexander Areshchenko	1½
	99	Gregory Kaidanov	½
						30	Alexander Areshchenko
	35	Alexander Riazantsev	½
	94	Rubén Felgaer	½
	14	Michael Adams	1
	115	Wan Yunguo	1
	51	Yuriy Kryvoruchko	1
	78	Parimarjan Negi	1
	19	Vassily Ivanchuk	1½
	110	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	½
						19	Vassily Ivanchuk
						83	Ray Robson
	46	Andrei Volokitin	0
	83	Ray Robson	2

	First round					Quarter-finals					Third round					Fourth round
	6	Hikaru Nakamura	2
	123	Deysi Cori	0
						6	Hikaru Nakamura
	59	Eltaj Safarli	1
	70	Bassem Amin	1
	27	Evgeny Alekseev	1
	102	Baskaran Adhiban	1
	38	Radosław Wojtaszek	1
	91	Alexandr Fier	1
	11	Ruslan Ponomariov	1½
	118	Torbjorn Ringdal Hansen	½
						11	Ruslan Ponomariov
						75	Daniil Dubov
	54	Sergey Fedorchuk	0
	75	Daniil Dubov	2
	22	Anton Korobov	1
	107	Vasif Durarbayli	1
	43	Baadur Jobava	1
	86	Martyn Kravtsiv	1

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final (best of 4)

Third place

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