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There were no special sensations in the first games of the first round at the World Cup 2009 which started on Saturday in Khanty Mansiysk. The rating favorites won their games at the first six boards. Though, some of strong Grandmasters could not manage to advance after the first day. So, Alexander Grischuk, Moscow chess player made a draw with Indian Jha Sriram, the Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov playing white could not win Egyptian Essam El Gindy, Alexey Shirov made a draw with Indian Abhijeet Gupta.
One of the representatives of women's chess - Women's World Champion Alexandra Kostenyuk lost to the Azerbaijani Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Another woman chess player Hou Yifan made a draw with Arkady Naiditsch.
The second games of the first round will take place on Monday. In case of a draw after both games, a winner will be defined at the tie breaks.
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