Chess World Cup 2011-Megaranto to challenge Le Quang Liem

Round 1 pairing has been released for Chess World Cup 2011. I highlight some interesting pairing base on fame and rating. UPDATED. Megaranto will play Le Quang Liem. Not a very nice pairing for me, because two of my favorite player should eliminated each other in round 1.

GM Judith Polgar will play for first time (?), officially against Woman Champion GM Hou Yifan, who happened also one of the highest elo rating woman on earth. Also in our dream now, the updated pairing listed GM Movsesian as Hou Yifan opponents, and Judith to play Fidel Corales of Cuban.

Round 1 Pairing - Chess World Cup 2011 (UPDATED)

1 GM Karjakin, Sergey RUS - IM Kaabi, Mejdi TUN

2 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR - FM Steel, Henry Robert RSA
3 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE - Ibrahim, Hatim EGY
4 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR - IM Gwaze, Robert ZIM
5 GM Gashimov, Vugar AZE - IM Hansen, Eric CAN
6 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS - IM Genba, Vladimir RUS
7 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE - GM De La Paz Perdomo, Frank CUB
8 GM Kamsky, Gata USA - IM Di Berardino, Diego Rafael BRA

9 GM Svidler, Peter RUS - GM Salem, A.R. Saleh UAE
10 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS - GM Lima, Darcy BRA
11 GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS - GM Bezgodov, Alexei RUS
12 GM Almasi, Zoltan HUN - GM El Gindy, Essam EGY
13 GM Vallejo Pons, Francisco ESP - GM Cori, Jorge PER
14 GM Navara, David CZE - GM Kabanov, Nikolai RUS
15 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA - GM Rahman, Ziaur BAN
16 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB - GM Moradiabadi, Elshan IRI

17 GM Wang, Hao CHN - GM Ivanov, Alexander USA
18 GM Leko, Peter HUN - GM Shankland, Samuel L USA
19 GM Moiseenko, Alexander UKR - GM Esen, Baris TUR
20 GM Le, Quang Liem VIE - GM Megaranto, Susanto INA
Megaranto listed previously against Michael Adams, this updated pairing is not a very nice one for SE Asian chess fans. Both should know each other more now, the games is coming up months ahead, with a short time perhaps it is better to have a known opponent. Only Utut Adianto and Megaranto to enter KO World Cup for Indonesia, in 2004 Utut historical KO Alexey to enter round 2.

21 GM Adams, Michael ENG - GM Paragua, Mark PHI
22 GM Shirov, Alexei ESP - GM Leon Hoyos, Manuel MEX
23 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO - GM Guliyev, Namig AZE
24 GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA - GM Pridorozhni, Aleksei RUS

25 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS - IM Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynald CUB
26 GM Bacrot, Etienne FRA - GM Robson, Ray USA
27 GM Wang, Yue CHN - GM Fier, Alexandr BRA
28 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS - GM Zhao, Zong-Yuan AUS
29 GM Efimenko, Zahar UKR - GM Babula, Vlastimil CZE
30 GM Malakhov, Vladimir RUS - GM Felgaer, Ruben ARG
31 GM Sutovsky, Emil ISR - GM Vorobiov, Evgeny E. RUS
32 GM Movsesian, Sergei ARM - GM Hou, Yifan CHN

33 GM Polgar, Judit HUN - GM Corrales Jimenez, Fidel CUB
34 GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA - GM Jumabayev, Rinat KAZ
35 GM Eljanov, Pavel UKR - GM Zherebukh, Yaroslav UKR
36 GM Berkes, Ferenc HUN - GM Kazhgaleyev, Murtas KAZ
37 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS - GM Mareco, Sandro ARG
38 GM Morozevich, Alexander RUS - GM Halkias, Stelios GRE
39 GM Zhigalko, Sergei BLR - GM Filippov, Anton UZB
40 GM Riazantsev, Alexander RUS - GM Bluvshtein, Mark CAN

41 GM Motylev, Alexander RUS - GM Drozdovskij, Yuri UKR
42 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL - GM Pashikian, Arman ARM
43 GM Potkin, Vladimir RUS - GM Shulman, Yuri USA
44 GM Nielsen, Peter Heine DEN - GM Postny, Evgeny ISR
45 GM Grachev, Boris RUS - GM Romanov, Evgeny RUS
46 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS - GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan ESP
47 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE - GM Gupta, Abhijeet IND
48 GM Kobalia, Mikhail RUS - GM Lysyj, Igor RUS

49 GM Bologan, Viktor MDA - GM Adly, Ahmed EGY
50 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN - GM Socko, Bartosz POL
51 GM Onischuk, Alexander USA - GM Ivanisevic, Ivan SRB
52 GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB - GM Quesada Perez, Yuniesky CUB
53 GM Yu, Yangyi CHN - GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian ROU
54 GM Korobov, Anton UKR - GM Zhou, Jianchao CHN
55 GM Harikrishna, P. IND - GM Rodshtein, Maxim ISR
56 GM Li, Chao b CHN - GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son VIE

57 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB - GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU
58 GM Akopian, Vladimir ARM - GM Negi, Parimarjan IND
59 GM Feller, Sebastien FRA - GM Iordachescu, Viorel MDA
60 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS - GM Azarov, Sergei BLR
61 GM Ni, Hua CHN - GM Khairullin, Ildar RUS
62 GM Fridman, Daniel GER - GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU
63 GM Alekseev, Evgeny RUS - GM Ragger, Markus AUT

64. GM So, Wesley PHI - GM Ding, Liren CHN
Ding is one of So competitor in Asia realm of chess. Both should know a handy knowledge to each other.Previous So vs Ding match went not well for the So, Ding will need to think hard to avoid  a revenge.