WORLD CUP round 1 pairings

Round 1 matchups:

1 GM Gelfand, Boris ISR - IM Obodchuk, Andrei RUS
2 GM Gashimov, Vugar AZE - IM Sarwat, Walaa EGY
3 GM Svidler, Peter RUS - IM Hebert, Jean CAN
4 GM Morozevich, Alexander RUS - IM Abdel Razik, Khaled EGY
5 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE - IM Ezat, Mohamed EGY
6 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR - GM Bezgodov, Alexei RUS
7 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR - GM El Gindy, Essam EGY
8 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS - IM Sriram, Jha IND
9 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS - GM Rizouk, Aimen ALG
10 GM Wang, Yue CHN - GM Kabanov, Nikolai RUS
11 GM Eljanov, Pavel UKR - GM Al Sayed, Mohamad N. QAT
12 GM Karjakin, Sergey UKR - GM Rodriguez Vila, Andres URU
13 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE - GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS
14 GM Shirov, Alexei ESP - GM Kunte, Abhijit IND
15 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB - GM Smerdon, David AUS
16 GM Movsesian, Sergei SVK - GM Yu, Yangyi CHN
17 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA - GM Yu, Shaoteng CHN
18 GM Alekseev, Evgeny RUS - IM Pridorozhni, Aleksei RUS
19 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS - GM Ivanov, Alexander USA
20 GM Wang, Hao CHN - GM Friedel, Joshua E USA
21 GM Navara, David CZE - GM Laylo, Darwin PHI
22 GM Malakhov, Vladimir RUS - GM Amin, Bassem EGY
23 GM Bacrot, Etienne FRA - GM Nijboer, Friso NED
24 GM Rublevsky, Sergei RUS - GM Morovic Fernandez, Ivan CHI
25 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO - IM Robson, Ray USA
26 GM Motylev, Alexander RUS - GM Hess, Robert L USA
27 GM Kamsky, Gata USA - GM Antonio, Rogelio Jr PHI
28 GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS - GM Gupta, Abhijeet IND
29 GM Bologan, Viktor MDA - GM Adly, Ahmed EGY
30 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij GER - GM Hou, Yifan CHN
31 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN - GM Pelletier, Yannick SUI
32 GM Polgar, Judit HUN - GM Pavasovic, Dusko SLO
33 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU - GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU
34 GM Sargissian, Gabriel ARM - GM Li, Chao b CHN
35 GM Onischuk, Alexander USA - GM Flores, Diego ARG
36 GM Cheparinov, Ivan BUL - GM Kryvoruchko, Yuriy UKR
37 GM Efimenko, Zahar UKR - GM Milos, Gilberto BRA
38 GM Sutovsky, Emil ISR - GM Zhou, Weiqi CHN
39 GM Najer, Evgeniy RUS - GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan IRI
40 GM Tiviakov, Sergei NED - GM Iturrizaga, Eduardo VEN
41 GM Areshchenko, Alexander UKR - GM Corrales Jimenez, Fidel CUB
42 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan IND - GM L'Ami, Erwin NED
43 GM Smirin, Ilia ISR - GM Ehlvest, Jaan USA
44 GM Baklan, Vladimir UKR - GM Shabalov, Alexander USA
45 GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar IND - GM Filippov, Anton UZB
46 GM Fier, Alexandr BRA - GM Khalifman, Alexander RUS
47 GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA - GM Sjugirov, Sanan RUS
48 GM Meier, Georg GER - GM Petrosian, Tigran L. ARM
49 GM Grachev, Boris RUS - GM Bartel, Mateusz POL
50 GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA - GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB
51 GM Sokolov, Ivan NED - GM Fedorchuk, Sergey A. UKR
52 GM Milov, Vadim SUI - GM Negi, Parimarjan IND
53 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS - GM Leitao, Rafael BRA
54 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS - GM Gustafsson, Jan GER
55 GM Savchenko, Boris RUS - GM Shulman, Yuri USA
56 GM Kobalia, Mikhail RUS - GM Sandipan, Chanda IND
57 GM Tkachiev, Vladislav FRA - GM Le, Quang Liem VIE
58 GM Tregubov, Pavel V. RUS - GM Akobian, Varuzhan USA
59 GM So, Wesley PHI - GM Guseinov, Gadir AZE
60 GM Granda Zuniga, Julio E PER - GM Sakaev, Konstantin RUS
61 GM Laznicka, Viktor CZE - GM Papaioannou, Ioannis GRE
62 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS - GM Nyback, Tomi FIN
63 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE - GM Zhou, Jianchao CHN
64 GM Amonatov, Farrukh TJK - GM Volkov, Sergey RUS