World Cup 2019 Pairings
FIDE published the pairings for the World Cup 2019 which will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk from September 9 to October 4. PAIRINGS (pdf) Official website: khantymansiysk2019.fide.com/en FIDE World Cup 2019 Round 1 (No Color) 1 GM Ding, Liren CHN – 128 FM Press, Shaun PNG 2 GM Giri, Anish NED – 127 FM Mohammad Fahad, Rahman BAN 3 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA – 126 IM Anwuli, Daniel NGR 4 GM So, Wesley USA – 125 IM Duran Vega, Sergio CRC 5 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS – 124 Gan-Erdene, Sugar MGL 6 GM Aronian, Levon ARM – 123 GM El Gindy, Essam EGY 7 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE – 122 IM Rakotomaharo, Fy Antenaina MAD 8 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier USA – 121 GM Escobar Forero, Alder COL 9 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS – 120 IM Pultinevicius, Paulius LTU 10 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE – 119 GM Ziska, Helgi Dam FAI 11 GM Artemiev, Vladislav RUS – 118 GM Iljiushenok, Ilia RUS 12 GM Yu, Yangyi CHN – 117 GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan IRI 13 13 GM Karjakin, Sergey RUS – 116 GM Megaranto, Susanto INA 14 GM Nakamura, Hikaru USA – 115 GM Bellahcene,Bilel ALG 15 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS – 114 GM Mekhitarian, Krikor Sevag BRA 16 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL – 113 GM Christiansen, Johan-Sebast NOR 17 GM Harikrishna, Pentala IND – 112 GM Gonzalez Vidal, Yuri CUB 18 GM Duda, Jan-Krzysztof POL – 111 GM Henriquez Villagra, Cristo CHI 19 GM Svidler, Peter RUS – 110 GM Albornoz Cabrera, Carlos D CUB 20 GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS – 109 GM Urkedal, Frode Olav Olsen NOR 21 GM Wei, Yi CHN – 108 GM Santos Ruiz, Miguel ESP 22 GM Le, Quang Liem VIE – 107 GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej BLR 23 GM Navara, David CZE – 106 GM Yuffa, Daniil RUS 24 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN – 105 GM Xu, Xiangyu CHN 25 GM Wang, Hao CHN – 104 GM Pridorozhni, Aleksei RUS 26 GM Shankland, Sam USA – 103 GM Safarli, Eltaj AZE 27 GM Matlakov, Maxim RUS – 102 GM Abdusattorov, Nodirbek UZB 28 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS – 101 GM Petrov, Nikita RUS 29 GM Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi IND – 100 GM Pichot, Alan ARG 30 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS – 99 GM Martinez Alcantara, Jose E PER 31 GM Xiong, Jeffery USA – 98 GM Lysyj, Igor RUS 32 GM Firouzja, Alireza IRI – 97 GM Pashikian, Arman ARM 33 GM Dubov, Daniil RUS – 96 GM Cordova, Emilio PER 34 GM Amin, Bassem EGY – 95 GM Tabatabaei, M.amin IRI 35 GM Jones, Gawain C B ENG – 94 GM Flores, Diego ARG 36 GM Grandelius, Nils SWE – 93 GM Rakhmanov, Aleksandr RUS 37 GM Adams, Michael ENG – 92 GM Aravindh, Chithambaram VR. IND 38 GM Gelfand, Boris ISR – 91 GM Lu, Shanglei CHN 39 GM Cori, Jorge PER – 90 GM Nihal Sarin IND 40 GM Rodshtein, Maxim ISR – 89 GM Bartel, Mateusz POL 41 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS – 88 GM Karthikeyan, Murali IND 42 GM McShane, Luke J ENG – 87 GM Delgado Ramirez, Neuris PAR 43 GM Korobov, Anton UKR – 86 GM Gupta, Abhijeet IND 44 GM Anton Guijarro, David ESP – 85 GM Narayanan.S.L IND 45 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij AZE – 84 GM Huschenbeth, Niclas GER 46 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR – 83 GM Esipenko, Andrey RUS 47 GM Nabaty, Tamir ISR – 82 GM Sethuraman, S.P. IND 48 GM Fedoseev, Vladimir RUS – 81 GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar IND 49 GM Alekseenko, Kirill RUS – 80 GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son VIE 50 GM Berkes, Ferenc HUN – 79 GM Jumabayev, Rinat KAZ 51 51 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter GER – 78 GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian ROU 52 GM Sevian, Samuel USA – 77 GM Tari, Aryan NOR 53 GM Adhiban, B. IND – 76 GM Iturrizaga Bonelli, Eduard VEN 54 GM Cheparinov, Ivan GEO – 75 GM Adly, Ahmed EGY 55 GM Sjugirov, Sanan RUS – 74 GM Mareco, Sandro ARG 56 GM Saric, Ivan CRO – 73 GM Bok, Benjamin NED 57 GM Piorun, Kacper POL – 72 GM Abasov, Nijat AZE 58 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB – 71 GM Bareev, Evgeny CAN 59 GM Maghsoodloo, Parham IRI – 70 GM Chigaev, Maksim RUS 60 GM Sarana, Alexey RUS – 69 GM Predke, Alexandr RUS 61 GM Demchenko, Anton RUS – 68 GM Hovhannisyan, Robert ARM 62 GM Kovalenko, Igor LAT – 67 GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU 63 GM Gledura, Benjamin HUN – 66 GM Najer, Evgeniy RUS 64 GM Movsesian, Sergei ARM – 65 GM Oparin, Grigoriy