17.01.2009 – Vassily Ivanchuk will be howling at the moon tonight. In an essentially drawn position, one move before the time control, the top seed in the A-Group overstepped and handed the point over to a pleasantly surprised Jan Smeets. Third seed Alexander Morozevich was taken to the cleaners by the former boy prodigy Sergey Karjakin. We bring you pictures, games and comments.
Results of round one
Group A: Round 1 - Sat. Jan. 17th
Daniël Stellwagen - Sergei Movsesian
1/2
Magnus Carlsen - Teymour Radjabov
1/2
Levon Aronian - Wang Yue
1/2
Vassily Ivanchuk - Jan Smeets
0-1
Sergei Karjakin - Alexender Morozevich
1-0
Loek van Wely - Leinier Dominguez
1/2
Gata Kamsky - Michael Adams
1/2
Group B: Round 1 - Sat. Jan. 17th
Hou Yifan - Rustam Kasimdzhanov
0-1
Krishnan Sasikiran - Erwin l'Ami
1/2
Dimitri Reinderman - Francisco Vallejo
0-1
Nigel Short - Jan Werle
1/2
Andrei Volokitin - Fabiano Caruana
1/2
Henrique Mecking - Zahar Efimenko
0-1
Alexander Motylev - David Navara
0-1
Group C: Round 1 - Sat. Jan. 17th
T. Hillarp Persson - Roeland Pruijssers
1/2
David Howell - Manuel Bosboom
0-1
Friso Nijboer - Wesley So
0-1
Oleg Romanishin - Ali Bitalzadeh
1-0
Anish Giri - Frank Holzke
1/2
Abhijeet Gupta - Dronavalli Harika
0-1
Eduardo Iturrizaga - M. Leon Hoyos
1-0
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