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The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 128-player single-elimination tournament
Single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate . The climate is extreme, with temperatures as low as -49 C° and as high as 34.5 C°. On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average tempurature of -1.1 C°...

, Russia. The Cup winner Peter Svidler
Peter Svidler
Peter Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster.He is six-time Russian champion ....

 and two next positions Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Igorevich Grischuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009.-Chess career:In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, Grischuk he made it to the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov....

 and Vassily Ivanchuk qualify for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2013
World Chess Championship 2013
The World Chess Championship 2013 will be a match between the winner of the World Chess Championship 2012 and a challenger, to determine the 2013 World Chess Champion...

.

Format

Matches consisted of two games (except for the final, which consisted of four). Players had 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 was tied after the regular games, tie breaks were played on the next day. The format for the tie breaks was as follows:
  • Two rapid games (25 minutes plus 10 second increment) were played.
  • If the score was still tied, two rapid games (10 minutes plus 10 second increment) were played.
  • If theses two games were drawn, the opponents played two blitz-games (5 minutes plus 3 second increment).
  • If the score was still tied after pair of blitz games, a single armageddon game (white must win, black only needs to draw) would be played. White had 5 minutes, black had 4 minutes, and both players had three-second increments beginning with move 61. Eventually, two Armageddon game were played in round 1 and round 3.


In the final the regulation is the same with the exception that instead of two games with “long” time control the finalists are to play four. Those who lost in the semifinal round played an additional match (according to the same regulation as in the final) for third place and the right to participate in the Candidates. The first two “tickets” to the Candidates are given to the finalists.

Participants

The players qualified for the event are:

  1. , 2788 (WC)

  2. , 2768 (R)

  3. , 2765 (R)

  4. , 2764 (WC)

  5. , 2760 (R)

  6. , 2746 (R)

  7. , 2744 (R)

  8. , 2741 (R)

  9. , 2739 (R)

  10. , 2736 (R)

  11. , 2733 (R)

  12. , 2726 (E10)

  13. , 2724 (R)

  14. , 2722 (R)

  15. , 2722 (J09)

  16. , 2719 (R)

  17. , 2718 (R)

  18. , 2717 (R)

  19. , 2715 (E11)

  20. , 2715 (AS10)

  21. , 2715 (R)

  22. , 2714 (R)

  23. , 2713 (E10)

  24. , 2711 (R)

  25. , 2711 (E10)

  26. , 2710 (R)

  27. , 2709 (R)

  28. , 2707 (E10)

  29. , 2706 (E10)

  30. , 2706 (WC)

  31. , 2700 (PN)

  32. , 2700 (E10)

  33. , 2699 (E11)

  34. , 2698 (R)

  35. , 2697 (R)

  36. , 2696 (E10)

  37. , 2696 (J10)

  38. , 2694 (R)

  39. , 2689 (E11)

  40. , 2688 (E11)

  41. , 2685 (E11)

  42. , 2683 (E11)

  43. , 2682 (E10)

  44. , 2681 (PN)

  45. , 2680 (E10)

  46. , 2679 (E11)

  47. , 2679 (E10)

  48. , 2679 (E11)

  49. , 2678 (PN)

  50. , 2675 (Z3.5)

  51. , 2675 (Z2.1)

  52. , 2673 (Z2.3)

  53. , 2672 (AS11)

  54. , 2671 (E11)

  55. , 2669 (AS11)

  56. , 2669 (Z3.5)

  57. , 2669 (PN)

  58. , 2667 (E10)

  59. , 2666 (E11)

  60. , 2665 (E10)

  61. , 2662 (AS10)

  62. , 2659 (E11)

  63. , 2659 (E10)

  64. , 2658 (AS10)



  1. , 2654 (PN)

  2. , 2651 (E11)

  3. , 2650 (E11)

  4. , 2649 (E11)

  5. , 2648 (E11)

  6. , 2646 (E11)

  7. , 2642 (Z3.7)

  8. , 2641 (E10)

  9. , 2637 (AS11)

  10. , 2637 (E10)

  11. , 2636 (AS10)

  12. , 2636 (E11)

  13. , 2635 (AM11)

  14. , 2633 (E11)

  15. , 2631 (AF)

  16. , 2631 (E10)

  17. , 2629 (E10)

  18. , 2627 (AS10)

  19. , 2626 (E10)

  20. , 2624 (E11)

  21. , 2618 (E11)

  22. , 2617 (Z2.1)

  23. , 2616 (E10)

  24. , 2614 (E10)

  25. , 2611 (AM11)

  26. , 2606 (Z3.4)

  27. , 2600 (E10)

  28. , 2597 (Z3.4)

  29. , 2597 (Z2.5)

  30. , 2590 (E11)

  31. , 2589 (AS11)

  32. , 2585 (AM11)

  33. , 2575 (WWC)

  34. , 2574 (E10)

  35. , 2573 (Z2.5)

  36. , 2572 (E10)

  37. , 2570 (Z3.6)

  38. , 2566 (Z2.4)

  39. , 2560 (Z2.1)

  40. , 2556, IM (AM11)

  41. , 2550 (ON)

  42. , 2549 (E11)

  43. , 2548 (Z2.3)

  44. , 2545 (Z3.3)

  45. , 2544 (Z3.3)

  46. , 2543 (E11)

  47. , 2539 (Z2.1)

  48. , 2538 (Z2.1)

  49. , 2532 (PN)

  50. , 2528 (Z3.2)

  51. , 2520 (ON)

  52. , 2514 (AM11)

  53. , 2510 (AF)

  54. , 2503 (ON)

  55. , 2493 (Z3.1)

  56. , 2493 (AM10)

  57. , 2480, IM (Z2.4)

  58. , 2477 (AM11)

  59. , 2452, IM (ON)

  60. , 2449, IM (Z2.2)

  61. , 2434, IM (Z4.3)

  62. , 2402, no title (Z4.2)

  63. , 2362, FM (AF)

  64. , 2344, IM (Z4.1)


All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.

Qualification paths:
  • WC: Finalist and Semi-finalists of Chess World Cup 2009
    Chess World Cup 2009
    The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The Cup winner qualified for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2011. Boris Gelfand defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in the...

  • WWC: Women's World Champion
    Women's World Chess Championship 2010
    The Women's World Chess Championship, 2010 took place in Hatay, Turkey from December 2 through 25.The tournament was played in a 64 player knockout type. Each pairing consisted of two games, one with white and one with black. The winner advanced. In case of a tie, tiebreaks were played the next day...

  • J09 and J10: World Junior Champions
    World Junior Chess Championship
    The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....

     2009 and 2010
  • R: Rating (average of July 2010 and January 2011 ratings is used)
  • E10 and E11: European Individual Championships 2010 and 2011
  • AM10: Pan American Continental Absolute Championship 2010


  • AM11: American Continental Chess Championship 2011
  • AS10 and AS11: Asian Chess Championship
    Asian Chess Championship
    The 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2009 World Chess Championship. Ten players were qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang , Wang Hao , Abhijit Kunte , Zhao Jun , Susanto Megaranto , Wen Yang , Darwin Laylo ,...

     2010 and 2011
  • AF: African Chess Championship
    African Chess Championship
    The first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title....

     2011
  • Z2.1
    U.S. Chess Championship
    The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national chess champion of the United States. Since 1936, it has been held under the auspices of the U.S. Chess Federation. Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size...

    , Z2.2
    Canadian Chess Championship
    This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open tournament. The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the next stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle...

    , Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1, Z3.2, Z3.3, Z3.4, Z3.5, Z3.6, Z4.1, Z4.2, Z4.3: Zonal tournaments
  • PN: FIDE president
    Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
    Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Kalmyk multi-millionaire businessman and politician. He was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and he has been the President of FIDE , the world's pre-eminent international chess organization, since 1995...

     nominee
  • ON: Organizer nominee


Calendar

RoundRegular gamesTiebreaks
1 28–29 August 30 August
2 31 August–1 September 2 September
3 3–4 September 5 September
4 6-7 September 8 September
5 9–10 September 11 September
6 12–13 September 14 September
7 16–19 September 20 September

Results, rounds 5–7

Final, 16–20 September
SeedNameRating1234Total
9 2740 1 ½ ½ ½ 2½
6 2757 0 ½ ½ ½ 1½


Third place, 16–20 September
SeedNameRating1234Total
4 2758 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1½
2 2765 ½ 1 ½ ½ 2½

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

External links


The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 128-player single-elimination tournament
Single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate . The climate is extreme, with temperatures as low as -49 C° and as high as 34.5 C°. On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average tempurature of -1.1 C°...

, Russia. The Cup winner Peter Svidler
Peter Svidler
Peter Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster.He is six-time Russian champion ....

 and two next positions Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Igorevich Grischuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009.-Chess career:In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, Grischuk he made it to the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov....

 and Vassily Ivanchuk qualify for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2013
World Chess Championship 2013
The World Chess Championship 2013 will be a match between the winner of the World Chess Championship 2012 and a challenger, to determine the 2013 World Chess Champion...

.

Format

Matches consisted of two games (except for the final, which consisted of four). Players had 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 was tied after the regular games, tie breaks were played on the next day. The format for the tie breaks was as follows:
  • Two rapid games (25 minutes plus 10 second increment) were played.
  • If the score was still tied, two rapid games (10 minutes plus 10 second increment) were played.
  • If theses two games were drawn, the opponents played two blitz-games (5 minutes plus 3 second increment).
  • If the score was still tied after pair of blitz games, a single armageddon game (white must win, black only needs to draw) would be played. White had 5 minutes, black had 4 minutes, and both players had three-second increments beginning with move 61. Eventually, two Armageddon game were played in round 1 and round 3.


In the final the regulation is the same with the exception that instead of two games with “long” time control the finalists are to play four. Those who lost in the semifinal round played an additional match (according to the same regulation as in the final) for third place and the right to participate in the Candidates. The first two “tickets” to the Candidates are given to the finalists.

Participants

The players qualified for the event are:

  1. , 2788 (WC)

  2. , 2768 (R)

  3. , 2765 (R)

  4. , 2764 (WC)

  5. , 2760 (R)

  6. , 2746 (R)

  7. , 2744 (R)

  8. , 2741 (R)

  9. , 2739 (R)

  10. , 2736 (R)

  11. , 2733 (R)

  12. , 2726 (E10)

  13. , 2724 (R)

  14. , 2722 (R)

  15. , 2722 (J09)

  16. , 2719 (R)

  17. , 2718 (R)

  18. , 2717 (R)

  19. , 2715 (E11)

  20. , 2715 (AS10)

  21. , 2715 (R)

  22. , 2714 (R)

  23. , 2713 (E10)

  24. , 2711 (R)

  25. , 2711 (E10)

  26. , 2710 (R)

  27. , 2709 (R)

  28. , 2707 (E10)

  29. , 2706 (E10)

  30. , 2706 (WC)

  31. , 2700 (PN)

  32. , 2700 (E10)

  33. , 2699 (E11)

  34. , 2698 (R)

  35. , 2697 (R)

  36. , 2696 (E10)

  37. , 2696 (J10)

  38. , 2694 (R)

  39. , 2689 (E11)

  40. , 2688 (E11)

  41. , 2685 (E11)

  42. , 2683 (E11)

  43. , 2682 (E10)

  44. , 2681 (PN)

  45. , 2680 (E10)

  46. , 2679 (E11)

  47. , 2679 (E10)

  48. , 2679 (E11)

  49. , 2678 (PN)

  50. , 2675 (Z3.5)

  51. , 2675 (Z2.1)

  52. , 2673 (Z2.3)

  53. , 2672 (AS11)

  54. , 2671 (E11)

  55. , 2669 (AS11)

  56. , 2669 (Z3.5)

  57. , 2669 (PN)

  58. , 2667 (E10)

  59. , 2666 (E11)

  60. , 2665 (E10)

  61. , 2662 (AS10)

  62. , 2659 (E11)

  63. , 2659 (E10)

  64. , 2658 (AS10)



  1. , 2654 (PN)

  2. , 2651 (E11)

  3. , 2650 (E11)

  4. , 2649 (E11)

  5. , 2648 (E11)

  6. , 2646 (E11)

  7. , 2642 (Z3.7)

  8. , 2641 (E10)

  9. , 2637 (AS11)

  10. , 2637 (E10)

  11. , 2636 (AS10)

  12. , 2636 (E11)

  13. , 2635 (AM11)

  14. , 2633 (E11)

  15. , 2631 (AF)

  16. , 2631 (E10)

  17. , 2629 (E10)

  18. , 2627 (AS10)

  19. , 2626 (E10)

  20. , 2624 (E11)

  21. , 2618 (E11)

  22. , 2617 (Z2.1)

  23. , 2616 (E10)

  24. , 2614 (E10)

  25. , 2611 (AM11)

  26. , 2606 (Z3.4)

  27. , 2600 (E10)

  28. , 2597 (Z3.4)

  29. , 2597 (Z2.5)

  30. , 2590 (E11)

  31. , 2589 (AS11)

  32. , 2585 (AM11)

  33. , 2575 (WWC)

  34. , 2574 (E10)

  35. , 2573 (Z2.5)

  36. , 2572 (E10)

  37. , 2570 (Z3.6)

  38. , 2566 (Z2.4)

  39. , 2560 (Z2.1)

  40. , 2556, IM (AM11)

  41. , 2550 (ON)

  42. , 2549 (E11)

  43. , 2548 (Z2.3)

  44. , 2545 (Z3.3)

  45. , 2544 (Z3.3)

  46. , 2543 (E11)

  47. , 2539 (Z2.1)

  48. , 2538 (Z2.1)

  49. , 2532 (PN)

  50. , 2528 (Z3.2)

  51. , 2520 (ON)

  52. , 2514 (AM11)

  53. , 2510 (AF)

  54. , 2503 (ON)

  55. , 2493 (Z3.1)

  56. , 2493 (AM10)

  57. , 2480, IM (Z2.4)

  58. , 2477 (AM11)

  59. , 2452, IM (ON)

  60. , 2449, IM (Z2.2)

  61. , 2434, IM (Z4.3)

  62. , 2402, no title (Z4.2)

  63. , 2362, FM (AF)

  64. , 2344, IM (Z4.1)


All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.

Qualification paths:
  • WC: Finalist and Semi-finalists of Chess World Cup 2009
    Chess World Cup 2009
    The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The Cup winner qualified for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2011. Boris Gelfand defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in the...

  • WWC: Women's World Champion
    Women's World Chess Championship 2010
    The Women's World Chess Championship, 2010 took place in Hatay, Turkey from December 2 through 25.The tournament was played in a 64 player knockout type. Each pairing consisted of two games, one with white and one with black. The winner advanced. In case of a tie, tiebreaks were played the next day...

  • J09 and J10: World Junior Champions
    World Junior Chess Championship
    The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....

     2009 and 2010
  • R: Rating (average of July 2010 and January 2011 ratings is used)
  • E10 and E11: European Individual Championships 2010 and 2011
  • AM10: Pan American Continental Absolute Championship 2010


  • AM11: American Continental Chess Championship 2011
  • AS10 and AS11: Asian Chess Championship
    Asian Chess Championship
    The 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2009 World Chess Championship. Ten players were qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang , Wang Hao , Abhijit Kunte , Zhao Jun , Susanto Megaranto , Wen Yang , Darwin Laylo ,...

     2010 and 2011
  • AF: African Chess Championship
    African Chess Championship
    The first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title....

     2011
  • Z2.1
    U.S. Chess Championship
    The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national chess champion of the United States. Since 1936, it has been held under the auspices of the U.S. Chess Federation. Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size...

    , Z2.2
    Canadian Chess Championship
    This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open tournament. The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the next stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle...

    , Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1, Z3.2, Z3.3, Z3.4, Z3.5, Z3.6, Z4.1, Z4.2, Z4.3: Zonal tournaments
  • PN: FIDE president
    Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
    Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Kalmyk multi-millionaire businessman and politician. He was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and he has been the President of FIDE , the world's pre-eminent international chess organization, since 1995...

     nominee
  • ON: Organizer nominee


Calendar

RoundRegular gamesTiebreaks
1 28–29 August 30 August
2 31 August–1 September 2 September
3 3–4 September 5 September
4 6-7 September 8 September
5 9–10 September 11 September
6 12–13 September 14 September
7 16–19 September 20 September

Results, rounds 5–7

Final, 16–20 September
SeedNameRating1234Total
9 2740 1 ½ ½ ½ 2½
6 2757 0 ½ ½ ½ 1½


Third place, 16–20 September
SeedNameRating1234Total
4 2758 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1½
2 2765 ½ 1 ½ ½ 2½

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

External links


The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 128-player single-elimination tournament
Single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate . The climate is extreme, with temperatures as low as -49 C° and as high as 34.5 C°. On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average tempurature of -1.1 C°...

, Russia. The Cup winner Peter Svidler
Peter Svidler
Peter Veniaminovich Svidler is a Russian chess grandmaster.He is six-time Russian champion ....

 and two next positions Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Igorevich Grischuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009.-Chess career:In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, Grischuk he made it to the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov....

 and Vassily Ivanchuk qualify for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2013
World Chess Championship 2013
The World Chess Championship 2013 will be a match between the winner of the World Chess Championship 2012 and a challenger, to determine the 2013 World Chess Champion...

.

Format

Matches consisted of two games (except for the final, which consisted of four). Players had 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 was tied after the regular games, tie breaks were played on the next day. The format for the tie breaks was as follows:
  • Two rapid games (25 minutes plus 10 second increment) were played.
  • If the score was still tied, two rapid games (10 minutes plus 10 second increment) were played.
  • If theses two games were drawn, the opponents played two blitz-games (5 minutes plus 3 second increment).
  • If the score was still tied after pair of blitz games, a single armageddon game (white must win, black only needs to draw) would be played. White had 5 minutes, black had 4 minutes, and both players had three-second increments beginning with move 61. Eventually, two Armageddon game were played in round 1 and round 3.


In the final the regulation is the same with the exception that instead of two games with “long” time control the finalists are to play four. Those who lost in the semifinal round played an additional match (according to the same regulation as in the final) for third place and the right to participate in the Candidates. The first two “tickets” to the Candidates are given to the finalists.

Participants

The players qualified for the event are:

  1. , 2788 (WC)

  2. , 2768 (R)

  3. , 2765 (R)

  4. , 2764 (WC)

  5. , 2760 (R)

  6. , 2746 (R)

  7. , 2744 (R)

  8. , 2741 (R)

  9. , 2739 (R)

  10. , 2736 (R)

  11. , 2733 (R)

  12. , 2726 (E10)

  13. , 2724 (R)

  14. , 2722 (R)

  15. , 2722 (J09)

  16. , 2719 (R)

  17. , 2718 (R)

  18. , 2717 (R)

  19. , 2715 (E11)

  20. , 2715 (AS10)

  21. , 2715 (R)

  22. , 2714 (R)

  23. , 2713 (E10)

  24. , 2711 (R)

  25. , 2711 (E10)

  26. , 2710 (R)

  27. , 2709 (R)

  28. , 2707 (E10)

  29. , 2706 (E10)

  30. , 2706 (WC)

  31. , 2700 (PN)

  32. , 2700 (E10)

  33. , 2699 (E11)

  34. , 2698 (R)

  35. , 2697 (R)

  36. , 2696 (E10)

  37. , 2696 (J10)

  38. , 2694 (R)

  39. , 2689 (E11)

  40. , 2688 (E11)

  41. , 2685 (E11)

  42. , 2683 (E11)

  43. , 2682 (E10)

  44. , 2681 (PN)

  45. , 2680 (E10)

  46. , 2679 (E11)

  47. , 2679 (E10)

  48. , 2679 (E11)

  49. , 2678 (PN)

  50. , 2675 (Z3.5)

  51. , 2675 (Z2.1)

  52. , 2673 (Z2.3)

  53. , 2672 (AS11)

  54. , 2671 (E11)

  55. , 2669 (AS11)

  56. , 2669 (Z3.5)

  57. , 2669 (PN)

  58. , 2667 (E10)

  59. , 2666 (E11)

  60. , 2665 (E10)

  61. , 2662 (AS10)

  62. , 2659 (E11)

  63. , 2659 (E10)

  64. , 2658 (AS10)



  1. , 2654 (PN)

  2. , 2651 (E11)

  3. , 2650 (E11)

  4. , 2649 (E11)

  5. , 2648 (E11)

  6. , 2646 (E11)

  7. , 2642 (Z3.7)

  8. , 2641 (E10)

  9. , 2637 (AS11)

  10. , 2637 (E10)

  11. , 2636 (AS10)

  12. , 2636 (E11)

  13. , 2635 (AM11)

  14. , 2633 (E11)

  15. , 2631 (AF)

  16. , 2631 (E10)

  17. , 2629 (E10)

  18. , 2627 (AS10)

  19. , 2626 (E10)

  20. , 2624 (E11)

  21. , 2618 (E11)

  22. , 2617 (Z2.1)

  23. , 2616 (E10)

  24. , 2614 (E10)

  25. , 2611 (AM11)

  26. , 2606 (Z3.4)

  27. , 2600 (E10)

  28. , 2597 (Z3.4)

  29. , 2597 (Z2.5)

  30. , 2590 (E11)

  31. , 2589 (AS11)

  32. , 2585 (AM11)

  33. , 2575 (WWC)

  34. , 2574 (E10)

  35. , 2573 (Z2.5)

  36. , 2572 (E10)

  37. , 2570 (Z3.6)

  38. , 2566 (Z2.4)

  39. , 2560 (Z2.1)

  40. , 2556, IM (AM11)

  41. , 2550 (ON)

  42. , 2549 (E11)

  43. , 2548 (Z2.3)

  44. , 2545 (Z3.3)

  45. , 2544 (Z3.3)

  46. , 2543 (E11)

  47. , 2539 (Z2.1)

  48. , 2538 (Z2.1)

  49. , 2532 (PN)

  50. , 2528 (Z3.2)

  51. , 2520 (ON)

  52. , 2514 (AM11)

  53. , 2510 (AF)

  54. , 2503 (ON)

  55. , 2493 (Z3.1)

  56. , 2493 (AM10)

  57. , 2480, IM (Z2.4)

  58. , 2477 (AM11)

  59. , 2452, IM (ON)

  60. , 2449, IM (Z2.2)

  61. , 2434, IM (Z4.3)

  62. , 2402, no title (Z4.2)

  63. , 2362, FM (AF)

  64. , 2344, IM (Z4.1)


All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.

Qualification paths:
  • WC: Finalist and Semi-finalists of Chess World Cup 2009
    Chess World Cup 2009
    The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. The Cup winner qualified for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2011. Boris Gelfand defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in the...

  • WWC: Women's World Champion
    Women's World Chess Championship 2010
    The Women's World Chess Championship, 2010 took place in Hatay, Turkey from December 2 through 25.The tournament was played in a 64 player knockout type. Each pairing consisted of two games, one with white and one with black. The winner advanced. In case of a tie, tiebreaks were played the next day...

  • J09 and J10: World Junior Champions
    World Junior Chess Championship
    The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....

     2009 and 2010
  • R: Rating (average of July 2010 and January 2011 ratings is used)
  • E10 and E11: European Individual Championships 2010 and 2011
  • AM10: Pan American Continental Absolute Championship 2010


  • AM11: American Continental Chess Championship 2011
  • AS10 and AS11: Asian Chess Championship
    Asian Chess Championship
    The 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2009 World Chess Championship. Ten players were qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang , Wang Hao , Abhijit Kunte , Zhao Jun , Susanto Megaranto , Wen Yang , Darwin Laylo ,...

     2010 and 2011
  • AF: African Chess Championship
    African Chess Championship
    The first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title....

     2011
  • Z2.1
    U.S. Chess Championship
    The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national chess champion of the United States. Since 1936, it has been held under the auspices of the U.S. Chess Federation. Until 1999, the event consisted of a round-robin tournament of varying size...

    , Z2.2
    Canadian Chess Championship
    This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open tournament. The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the next stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle...

    , Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1, Z3.2, Z3.3, Z3.4, Z3.5, Z3.6, Z4.1, Z4.2, Z4.3: Zonal tournaments
  • PN: FIDE president
    Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
    Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Kalmyk multi-millionaire businessman and politician. He was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and he has been the President of FIDE , the world's pre-eminent international chess organization, since 1995...

     nominee
  • ON: Organizer nominee


Calendar

RoundRegular gamesTiebreaks
1 28–29 August 30 August
2 31 August–1 September 2 September
3 3–4 September 5 September
4 6-7 September 8 September
5 9–10 September 11 September
6 12–13 September 14 September
7 16–19 September 20 September

Results, rounds 5–7

Final, 16–20 September
SeedNameRating1234Total
9 2740 1 ½ ½ ½ 2½
6 2757 0 ½ ½ ½ 1½


Third place, 16–20 September
SeedNameRating1234Total
4 2758 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1½
2 2765 ½ 1 ½ ½ 2½

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Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

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