"FIDE World Cup 2017" : Round 1.1 Carlsen , So led march of the favorites.

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Balogun, Oluwafemi"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Qe2 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. O-O Bg4 7. c3 O-O 8. h3
Bxf3 9. Qxf3 e5 10. Rd1 Qe8 11. d5 Ne7 12. Qe2 Nh5 13. Bb5 Qc8 14. Na3 a6 15.
Ba4 f5 16. Bc2 f4 17. Qg4 Qxg4 18. hxg4 Nf6 19. g5 Nd7 20. Nc4 b6 21. b4 h6 22.
gxh6 Bxh6 23. g4 Nf6 24. f3 Bg5 25. Kg2 Kg7 26. a4 Bh4 27. Bd2 g5 28. Rh1 Ng6
29. Kf1 Rh8 30. Ke2 Bg3 31. a5 b5 32. Na3 Ne7 33. c4 c6 34. dxc6 Nxc6 35. Bc3
Rxh1 36. Rxh1 bxc4 37. Nxc4 Rb8 38. Nxd6 Kg6 39. Nf5 1-0

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Ruiz Castillo, Joshua Daniel"]
[Black "So, Wesley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2377"]
[BlackElo "2810"]
[ECO "B19"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5 Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bf4 Qa5+ 12. Bd2 Bb4 13. a3 Bxd2+ 14. Qxd2 Qxd2+ 15. Nxd2 Ngf6 16. O-O-O Ke7 17. Nde4 Rad8 18. Rhe1 Nxe4 19. Rxe4 Nf6 20. Re5 Ng4 21. Re2 Rd5 22. c4 Rd7 23. f3 Nf6 24. Re5 Rc8 25. Nf5+ Kf8 26. Ne3 Rcd8 27. Nc2
b6 28. Rde1 Rd6 29. c5 Rd5 30. cxb6 axb6 31. g4 R5d6 32. b4 Nd5 33. Kb2 Nf4 34. R1e3 f6 35. R5e4 e5 36. dxe5 Nd3+ 37. Kc3 fxe5 38. a4 Nf2 39. Rxe5 Nd1+ 40. Kc4 Nxe3+ 41. Rxe3 Rd5 42. Rc3 Kf7 43. Ne3 b5+ 44. axb5 cxb5+ 45. Kb3 Rd3 46. Nf5 Kf6 47. Kc2 Rd2+ 48. Kc1 Rd1+ 49. Kc2 R8d2+ 50. Kb3 Rd3 51. Ne3 Rb1+ 52. Kc2 Rxc3+ 53. Kxc3 Ke5 54. Nf5 Rf1 55. Nxg7 Rxf3+ 56. Kd2 Kf4 57. Nf5 Kxg4 58. Nxh6+ Kxh5 59. Ng8 Rf7 0-1

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Solomon, Kenny"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 b5
9. Bc2 Bb7 10. Nbd2 Re8 11. Nf1 Bf8 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bh4 g6 14. Ne3 Bg7 15. a4 Qd7
16. b4 Nh5 17. Bb3 Nf4 18. Bg3 Nh5 19. Bh4 Nf4 20. h3 Kh8 21. Bg3 Nh5 22. Bh2
Nf6 23. Qd2 Rab8 24. Rec1 Rf8 25. axb5 axb5 26. c4 bxc4 27. Rxc4 Ne7 28. Qc2 c6
29. Ra5 Nh5 30. d4 exd4 31. Nxd4 Ra8 32. Nf3 Ba6 33. g4 Nf6 34. Rd4 Ne8 35. Rd2
Qb7 36. e5 d5 37. Qc5 Rb8 38. e6 Ra8 39. exf7 Nf6 40. Bc2 Rxf7 41. Ne5 Rff8 42.
Qxe7 1-0

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Dai, Changren"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3
d6 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 c5 12. d5 Qc7 13. Bc2 c4 14. Nf1 a5 15. Ng3
Nc5 16. b3 cxb3 17. axb3 Bd7 18. Be3 Rfc8 19. Qd2 a4 20. bxa4 Nxa4 21. Bxa4 Rxa4
22. Rxa4 bxa4 23. Rc1 Qc4 24. Qc2 h5 25. Nd2 Qa6 26. c4 h4 27. Ne2 Nh5 28. Ra1
Bd8 29. Nc3 Nf4 30. Ra2 Ra8 31. Qb1 Qc8 32. Qd1 Nd3 33. Nb5 Ra6 34. Qa1 Nc5 35.
Qb1 Be7 36. Qa1 Bd8 37. Qb1 Be7 38. Qa1 Kh7 39. Bxc5 Qxc5 40. Rxa4 Rxa4 41. Qxa4
Bg5 42. Nb3 Qc8 43. Kh2 Bf4+ 44. g3 Bxh3 45. Nxd6 hxg3+ 46. fxg3 Qg4 47. Nf5 Qh5
48. gxf4 Bxf5+ 49. Kg3 Qg4+ 50. Kf2 Qxf4+ 51. Ke2 Qxe4+ 0-1

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Aronian, Levon"]
[Black "Cawdery, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. cxd5 Nxd5 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Nb6 6. d3 Bg7 7. Be3 Nc6 8.
Bxc6+ bxc6 9. Qd2 h6 10. Rc1 Be6 11. Nf3 Bh3 12. Rg1 Bg4 13. Nh4 Nd5 14. Na4
Nxe3 15. fxe3 O-O 16. b3 Qd6 17. Qc2 Rad8 18. Qc5 Qe6 19. Ng2 g5 20. Qxc6 Qe5
21. Qc3 Qd6 22. Qc4 Be6 23. Qc5 Qa6 24. Qb4 Rb8 25. Qd2 Qd6 26. Nc5 Bd5 27. Qc2
f5 28. Kf2 Kh8 29. Rgf1 f4 30. gxf4 gxf4 31. e4 f3 32. exf3 Qxh2 33. Ke1 Bd4 34.
Qd2 Bg8 35. Nd7 Rbd8 36. Nxf8 Rxf8 37. Rc6 Kh7 38. Kd1 Bf7 39. Nf4 1-0

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Liu, Guanchu"]
[Black "Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Bd6 6. d4 exd4 7. Qxd4 f6 8.
Nc3 Ne7 9. Be3 Ng6 10. Nd2 Be6 11. f4 Bf7 12. Rad1 O-O 13. Nb3 Qe7 14. Qd2 Bb4
15. e5 Rad8 16. exf6 Qxf6 17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. Qxb4 Nh4 19. Rd2 Qg6 20. f5 Nxf5 21.
Bc5 Nd6 22. Rxf8+ Rxf8 23. Bxd6 cxd6 24. Qxb7 Qe4 25. h3 h6 26. Qb6 Qe1+ 0-1

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Nakamura, Hikaru"]
[Black "Mollah Abdullah, Al Rakib"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b6 3. Bg2 Bb7 4. O-O g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. d4 O-O 7. d5 Ne4 8. Nfd2
Nxd2 9. Qxd2 c6 10. Nc3 cxd5 11. cxd5 d6 12. b3 b5 13. Bb2 Qb6 14. Ne4 Bxb2 15.
Qxb2 Nd7 16. Rad1 Rfe8 17. h4 Ne5 18. h5 Bc8 19. Rd4 Bg4 20. hxg6 hxg6 21. f4
Bxe2 22. fxe5 dxe5 23. Qxe2 Qxd4+ 24. Kh2 f6 25. Qxb5 Kg7 26. Nf2 Rh8+ 27. Kg1
Rad8 28. Rd1 Qe3 29. Qd3 Qb6 30. Rc1 Rc8 31. Rc6 Rxc6 32. dxc6 Rd8 33. Qc3 Qd4
34. Qxd4 exd4 35. Nd3 f5 36. Nc5 Kf6 37. c7 Rc8 38. Na6 d3 39. Kf2 1-0

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Khusenkhojaev, Muhammad"]
[Black "Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. g3 c5 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O cxd4 7. Nxd4 d5 8. cxd5
Nxd5 9. Nb5 e6 10. N1c3 a6 11. Nxd5 axb5 12. Nb4 Qe7 13. Qb3 Ra4 14. Nd3 Nc6 15.
Qxb5 Ra5 16. Qb6 Bd4 17. Qb3 Rd8 18. Bd2 Ra6 19. e3 Rb6 20. Qc2 Bg7 21. Bc3 e5
22. a3 Bf5 1/2-1/2

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Grischuk, Alexander"]
[Black "El Gindy, Essam"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 c6 4. Nf3 d5 5. Bb3 Bd6 6. Nc3 d4 7. Ne2 O-O 8. O-O c5
9. Ng3 Nc6 10. Nh4 g6 11. Bg5 Be7 12. Nf3 Kg7 13. h3 Ng8 14. Bd2 h6 15. c3 Bd6
16. Rc1 Bd7 17. cxd4 cxd4 18. a3 Qe7 19. Nh2 Rac8 20. Bc4 Rc7 21. Ne2 Be6 22.
Bxe6 fxe6 23. Ng4 h5 24. Nh2 Qh4 25. Be1 Rcf7 26. Kh1 Qd8 27. Ng1 Nf6 28. b4 a6
29. Bd2 Nh7 30. Qe2 Be7 31. Ngf3 Bd6 32. h4 Rc7 33. Ng5 Nxg5 34. Bxg5 Be7 35.
Nf3 Qd6 36. g3 Bxg5 37. Nxg5 Rfc8 38. Qd2 Nd8 39. Rxc7+ Qxc7 40. b5 Qc2 41. Qb4
Qc5 42. bxa6 Qxb4 43. axb4 bxa6 44. Ra1 Nc6 45. Ra4 Kf6 46. Rxa6 Nxb4 47. Ra7 1-0

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Yeoh, Li Tian"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Be2 cxd4 7. cxd4 Nf6 8.
Nc3 Qd6 9. O-O O-O 10. Qb3 Na6 11. Rd1 b6 12. Ne5 Nc7 13. Nc4 Qd8 14. Bf4 Ncd5
15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. Be5 Be6 17. Qa3 Bh6 18. Ne3 a5 19. Bf3 Ra7 20. Bxd5 Bxd5 21.
Nf5 Bg5 22. Qg3 Bf6 23. Bxf6 exf6 24. Ne3 Rd7 25. Rd2 Re8 26. b3 h5 27. Rad1 Kh7
28. Qf4 Re4 29. Nxd5 Rxf4 30. Nxf4 Rc7 31. d5 Qd6 32. Ne2 b5 33. h3 h4 34. Kh1
Kg7 35. Ng1 g5 36. Nf3 Rc5 37. Kg1 Kg6 38. Rd4 f5 39. Nh2 f6 40. Nf1 Rc2 41. a4
Rc5 42. axb5 Rxb5 43. R1d3 Rc5 44. Ne3 Rc1+ 45. Rd1 Rxd1+ 46. Rxd1 Kf7 47. Nxf5
Qb4 48. Nd4 Qb7 49. d6 Qd5 50. f3 Qxd6 51. Rd3 f5 52. Kf2 Kf6 53. Ke2 Qh2 54.
Kf2 Qd6 55. Ke2 Qe5+ 56. Kf2 Qc5 57. Kf1 Qc1+ 58. Kf2 Qb1 59. Rc3 f4 60. Ne2 Ke7
61. Rc7+ Kd6 62. Rc3 Qd1 63. Rc1 Qxb3 64. Ke1 a4 65. Nc3 a3 66. Kd2 a2 0-1

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Ding, Liren"]
[Black "Haddouche, Mohamed"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 c6 4. Bg2 d5 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Qb3 Qb6 7. Nc3 O-O 8. O-O
Rd8 9. Bd2 Be6 10. Na4 Qxb3 11. axb3 Na6 12. Rfc1 Ne8 13. e3 h6 14. Ba5 Rdc8 15.
Nd2 Nec7 16. Bf1 Bd7 17. Bxc7 Rxc7 18. cxd5 cxd5 19. Bxa6 Rxc1+ 20. Rxc1 bxa6
21. Rc7 Bxa4 22. bxa4 e5 23. dxe5 Bxe5 24. Rb7 Rb8 25. Rxa7 Rb6 26. a5 Rc6 27.
Rb7 Rc2 28. Nf3 Rxb2 29. Ra7 Bc3 30. Rxa6 Kg7 31. Rb6 Ra2 32. a6 Ra4 33. Kg2 Ra2
34. g4 Ra4 35. Kg3 Ra3 36. Kg2 Ra4 37. h3 Ra2 38. h4 Ra4 39. g5 hxg5 40. hxg5
Ra2 41. Rc6 Ra3 42. Rc7 Ba5 43. Rb7 Bc3 44. a7 Ba1 45. Nd4 Bxd4 46. exd4 1-0

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Smirnov, Anton"]
[Black "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bf4 dxc4 6. e3 b5 7. Nxb5 Bb4+ 8.
Nc3 Nd5 9. a3 Nxc3 10. Qd2 Nd5 11. axb4 Nxf4 12. exf4 Bb7 13. Be2 O-O 14. O-O
Nb6 15. Rfd1 Qd6 16. Ne5 a6 17. Rac1 Rfb8 18. Nxc4 Nxc4 19. Rxc4 Bd5 20. Rc5 Rb6
21. Rdc1 c6 22. Bc4 h6 23. Bxd5 exd5 24. g3 Qd7 25. b5 axb5 26. Re1 Rba6 27. Rc3
Ra1 28. Re3 Rxe1+ 29. Rxe1 Re8 30. Rxe8+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Giri, Anish"]
[Black "Dzagnidze, Nana"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 g6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. g3 Ne7 8.
Bg2 O-O 9. O-O d6 10. Bg5 Be6 11. Qd3 Rb8 12. b3 c5 13. Qd2 Qd7 14. Rad1 Nc6 15.
Ne4 f6 16. Nxc5 dxc5 17. Qxd7 Bxd7 18. Rxd7 Ne5 19. Rxg7+ Kxg7 20. Be3 Nd7 21.
Rd1 Rfd8 22. Rd5 Kf7 23. Bh3 Ke7 24. Bxc5+ Nxc5 25. Rxc5 Rd1+ 26. Kg2 Kd6 27.
Ra5 Ra8 28. c5+ Ke7 29. Bg4 a6 30. Bf3 Ra7 31. b4 Rc1 32. Bc6 Rc4 33. a3 Rc3 34.
f4 g5 35. fxg5 fxg5 36. Kf2 Kd8 37. Ke1 Re3 38. b5 Re6 39. Bd5 Rh6 40. c6 Rf6
41. bxa6 Ke7 42. Be4 h6 43. h3 Re6 44. Bd5 Re3 45. Kf2 Rc3 46. Be4 Ke6 47. a4
Ra3 48. h4 gxh4 49. gxh4 Kf6 50. Bd3 Kg7 51. Rd5 Rxa4 52. Rd7+ Kf6 53. Kg3 Ra3
54. Kg4 Ra4+ 55. Kh5 Ra5+ 56. Kxh6 Rc5 57. Rg7 Rh5+ 58. Kxh5 Kxg7 59. Kg5 Ra8
60. h5 Rd8 61. h6+ Kf8 62. a7 Ra8 63. Kf6 Kg8 64. h7+ Kh8 65. Ke7 Rxa7 66. Kd7
Kg7 67. Kc8 1-0

[Event "FIDE World Cup 2017"]
[Site "Tbilisi GEO"]
[Date "2017.09.05"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Wei, Yi"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. d4 Bb4 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 dxc4 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3
Be7 9. e4 Na5 10. Be3 Rb8 11. Qe2 b5 12. Rad1 Bb7 13. Ne5 a6 14. g4 Ne8 15. d5
exd5 16. Nxd5 Nd6 17. g5 Bxd5 18. Rxd5 c6 19. Rdd1 Qc7 20. Qh5 g6 21. Qh6 Nxe4
22. Nd7 Nd6 23. Bh3 Rfd8 24. Rd4 1-0