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GM Wesley So moved into a good position to march into the next round as he hurdled his first match in the 2009 World Chess Cup Sunday at the Khanty- Mansiysk Center of Arts.
So, seeded 59th in this tough 128-player field with an ELO of 2640, played almost flawlessly with the advantageous white pieces to bring down GM Gadir Guseinov of Azerbaijan (ELO 2625).
The 15-year-old campaigner from St. Francis College (Cavite) needs only to draw against Guseinov in the second of their two-game encounter late Sunday to advance to the 64-player second round.
Guseinov, seeded No. 70, is one of 46 players who earned a ticket to the World Cup through the tough European Championships.
But the two other Filipino campaigners - GMs Rogelio Antonio, Jr. and Darwin Laylo - were not as fortunate.
Antonio, the most-experienced player in the three-man Filipino delegation in the knockout-style tournament being held in this Scandinavian-like resort town in Western Siberia, lost to defending champion and No. 27 seed GM Gata Kamsky of the US.
Kamsky is one of only three players seeded into the tournament for his participation in the 2007 World Cup.
And Laylo, who clinched his second straight trip to the World Cup by topping the Asian Zone 3.3 championship in Vietnam also this year, bowed to No. 21 seed GM David Navara of Czech Republic.
Both Antonio (ELO 2574) and Laylo (ELO 2552) now need to win the second game of their first-round appearance to send their respective pairings into knockout stages.
On the other hand, another loss to Kamsky and Navara will mean outright elimination for the two Filipino players.
Top seed GM Boris Gelfand of Israel also opened his campaign on a bright note, beating IM Andrei Obodchuk of Russia.
Second seed GM Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan defeated IM Walaa Sarwat of Egypt while third seed GM Peter Svidler of Russia whipped IM Jean Hebert of Candada.
Other notable first-round winners were No. 4 GM Alexander Morozevich of Russia over IM Khaled Abdel Rzik of Egypt; No. 5 GM Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan over IM Mohamed Ezat of Egypt; No. 6 GM Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine over GM Alexei Bezgrodov of Russia; No. 9 GM Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia over GM Aimen Rizouk of Algeria; and No. 10 GM Wang Yue of China over GM Nikolai Kabanov of Russia.
Reigning women's world champion Alexnadra Kosteniuk of Russia lost to No. 13 GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan while world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta of India drew with GM Nikita Vitiguv of Russia in another highly-anticipated first-round pairing.
GM Wesley So moved into a good position to march into the next round as he hurdled his first match in the 2009 World Chess Cup Sunday at the Khanty- Mansiysk Center of Arts.
So, seeded 59th in this tough 128-player field with an ELO of 2640, played almost flawlessly with the advantageous white pieces to bring down GM Gadir Guseinov of Azerbaijan (ELO 2625).
Wesley So
Guseinov, seeded No. 70, is one of 46 players who earned a ticket to the World Cup through the tough European Championships.
But the two other Filipino campaigners - GMs Rogelio Antonio, Jr. and Darwin Laylo - were not as fortunate.
Antonio, the most-experienced player in the three-man Filipino delegation in the knockout-style tournament being held in this Scandinavian-like resort town in Western Siberia, lost to defending champion and No. 27 seed GM Gata Kamsky of the US.
Kamsky is one of only three players seeded into the tournament for his participation in the 2007 World Cup.
And Laylo, who clinched his second straight trip to the World Cup by topping the Asian Zone 3.3 championship in Vietnam also this year, bowed to No. 21 seed GM David Navara of Czech Republic.
Antonio
On the other hand, another loss to Kamsky and Navara will mean outright elimination for the two Filipino players.
Top seed GM Boris Gelfand of Israel also opened his campaign on a bright note, beating IM Andrei Obodchuk of Russia.
Second seed GM Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan defeated IM Walaa Sarwat of Egypt while third seed GM Peter Svidler of Russia whipped IM Jean Hebert of Candada.
Other notable first-round winners were No. 4 GM Alexander Morozevich of Russia over IM Khaled Abdel Rzik of Egypt; No. 5 GM Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan over IM Mohamed Ezat of Egypt; No. 6 GM Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine over GM Alexei Bezgrodov of Russia; No. 9 GM Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia over GM Aimen Rizouk of Algeria; and No. 10 GM Wang Yue of China over GM Nikolai Kabanov of Russia.
Reigning women's world champion Alexnadra Kosteniuk of Russia lost to No. 13 GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan while world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta of India drew with GM Nikita Vitiguv of Russia in another highly-anticipated first-round pairing.
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