yeah live page is busto, http://new.livestream.com/cisha/wcc2013 works for the video. Alekseev flagged in a totally won position with a 3 sec increment :s

Chessbomb seems to have the games in real time, or close to it.

yes go granda! a wonderfully imaginative player

Tomashevsky beats Ramirez, Armageddon time. Man this is freakin awesome.

GO RAMIREZ!

Haha, ouch. Lost again (in an actually lost position this time) in the next game and is eliminated, which gets Adhiban into the round of 64 as the second triple digit seed to advance.

Edit: And Adhiban will face Fier next round, so we're guaranteed that someone seeded #91 or lower will make it to the round of 32.

Ramirez has black. All we need is a draw. Come on buddy.

Couldn't find 23. ... Nf4, which would have been such a sick move, and things look grim for Ramirez now.

Dang. Unless a time trouble miracle happens, Ramirez's goose is cooked.

It's over, Ramirez lost. He's played some great chess lately, but it has to be tough to lose in rapid/blitz playoffs in both the US Championship and here also.

granda \o/

ZUNIGAAAAAAAAA

Waiting for the desicion about Cori-Radjabov match. The day might still not be over.

Edit: Appeal rejected, Radjabov moving on.

Poor kid got jobbed out of a game due to the zero tolerance rule which NOBODY supports (he was present one minute after the starting time) and then they squeezed $500 out of him too. Disgusting

Final list of the 13 underdogs that made it to the second round, along with 51 higher-seeded players:

#67 Mikhail Kobalia
#68 Dariusz Świercz
#71 Anton Filippov
#75 Daniil Dubov
#80 Rafael Leitão
#83 Ray Robson
#85 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
#87 Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez
#89 Jon Ludvig Hammer
#91 Alexandr Fier
#94 Rubén Felgaer
#102 Baskaran Adhiban
#105 Wei Yi

So that's 32 of the top 34 seeds that got through (including the entire top 23), and 34 of the 38 players who entered the event rated 2700+.

Adhiban/Fier are the only two players on this list who face each other in round two, the rest all have top-64 opponents who are "supposed" to be there. And the games continue tomorrow! As long as tie-breaks prove necessary for at least one matchup in every round, there won't be a rest day until August 29th! So this tournament really is going to just keep on entertaining

Watch out for Dubov, guy is pretty sick.

Also Wei Yi obv.

Trivia question: Which one of the "underdogs" from the BJJ's list did I drink beer with?

I'm going with Jon Ludvig Hammer.

Yep. Both of them could go deep. I'll throw in Robson too because he crushed Volokitin in both classical games.

Fun fact: Given the average rating of the remaining field, if Wei Yi keeps moving forward he can expect to gain about 2.5 rating points each time he draws, possibly more against some of the top players in the field. If he were to win the entire tournament, by drawing every single classical game and then repeatedly winning on tie-breaks, then depending on who he faced in the later rounds, there's a chance he could get his classical rating to 2600. He entered the event at 2551.

I'd put my bet on Kobalia or Hammer.

It would be the best (as a story) if it were one of the teenagers. I'm not going to go that route with a guess though. In the interest of not duplicating other people's guesses, I'll go with Filippov. Really though I feel like it's probably Hammer (or maybe I just want it to be him, because who DOESN'T want to drink a beer with a guy named "Hammer"?)

Haha, should have seen the '"Hammer" answers coming )

Actually it is probably the most unlikely of the bunch, #87 Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez (CUB).

Now that you know the answer to this amazingly important question, let's move on to R2 predictions!

1 Lysyj Igor RUS 2648 – Aronian Levon ARM 2813 0-2
2 Caruana Fabiano ITA 2796 – Yu Yangyi CHN 2662 1.5-0.5
3 Kobalia Mikhail RUS 2651 – Kramnik Vladimir RUS 2784 0-2
4 Grischuk Alexander RUS 2785 – Swiercz Dariusz POL 2654 3.5-2.5
5 Sasikiran Krishnan IND 2660 – Karjakin Sergey RUS 2772 0.5-1.5
6 Nakamura Hikaru USA 2772 – Safarli Eltaj AZE 2660 2-0
7 Filippov Anton UZB 2630 – Gelfand Boris ISR 2764 1-3
8 Kamsky Gata USA 2741 – Shimanov Aleksandr RUS 2655 2.5-3.5 (sorry)
9 Matlakov Maxim RUS 2676 – Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2775 1-3
10 Dominguez Leinier CUB 2757 – Onischuk Alexander USA 2667 1.5-0.5
11 Dubov Daniil RUS 2624 – Ponomariov Ruslan UKR 2756 4.5-3.5 yes really
12 Wang Hao CHN 2747 – Dreev Aleksey RUS 2668 2.5-3.5 because Dreev.
13 Bologan Viktor MDA 2672 – Svidler Peter RUS 2746 1-3
14 Adams Michael ENG 2740 – Kryvoruchko Yuriy UKR 2678 4.5-3.5
15 Granda Zuniga Julio E PER 2664 – Leko Peter HUN 2744 5-4 oo yeee.
16 Morozevich Alexander RUS 2739 – Leitao Rafael BRA 2632 1.5-0.5
17 Ragger Markus AUT 2680 – Vitiugov Nikita RUS 2719 2.5-1.5
18 Giri Anish NED 2737 – Li Chao b CHN 2693 2.5-3.5 because China.
19 Robson Ray USA 2623 – Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2731 0.5-1.5
20 Radjabov Teimour AZE 2733 – Bruzon Batista Lazaro CUB 2698 0.5-1.5
21 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son VIE 2625 – Andreikin Dmitry RUS 2716 1.5-2.5
22 Korobov Anton UKR 2720 – Jobava Baadur GEO 2696 3-1
23 Ortiz Reynaldo CUB 2609 – Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2719 0.5-1.5
24 Shirov Alexei LAT 2696 – Wei Yi CHN 2551 0.5-1.5 because China
25 Hammer Jon Ludvig NOR 2605 – Navara David CZE 2715 3.5-2.5
26 Bacrot Etienne FRA 2714 – Moiseenko Alexander UKR 2699 5-4
27 Adhiban B. IND 2567 – Fier Alexandr BRA 2595 5-3
28 Jakovenko Dmitry RUS 2724 – Eljanov Pavel UKR 2702 1.5-0.5
29 Vallejo Pons Francisco ESP 2706 – Le Quang Liem VIE 2702 1.5-2.5
30 Areshchenko Alexander UKR 2709 – Felgaer Ruben ARG 2586 1.5-0.5
31 Fressinet Laurent FRA 2708 – Malakhov Vladimir RUS 2707 5-4
32 Tomashevsky Evgeny RUS 2706 – So Wesley PHI 2710 2.5-3.5


Feel free to disagree and post your selections!

bleh I woulda guessed isam0r (or whatever he is on icc) here's the truth for rd 2, tried to pick some surprises:

1 Lysyj Igor RUS 2648 – Aronian Levon ARM 2813 0-2
2 Caruana Fabiano ITA 2796 – Yu Yangyi CHN 2662 3-1
3 Kobalia Mikhail RUS 2651 – Kramnik Vladimir RUS 2784 0-2
4 Grischuk Alexander RUS 2785 – Swiercz Dariusz POL 2654 3.5-2.5
5 Sasikiran Krishnan IND 2660 – Karjakin Sergey RUS 2772 2.5-1.5
6 Nakamura Hikaru USA 2772 – Safarli Eltaj AZE 2660 2-0 I'd like to root against Naka butnahh
7 Filippov Anton UZB 2630 – Gelfand Boris ISR 2764 1-3 boris the blade
8 Kamsky Gata USA 2741 – Shimanov Aleksandr RUS 2655 2-0
9 Matlakov Maxim RUS 2676 – Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2775 3.5-2.5
10 Dominguez Leinier CUB 2757 – Onischuk Alexander USA 2667 5-3
11 Dubov Daniil RUS 2624 – Ponomariov Ruslan UKR 2756 2.5-3.5 this is a close one
12 Wang Hao CHN 2747 – Dreev Aleksey RUS 2668 1.5-0.5
13 Bologan Viktor MDA 2672 – Svidler Peter RUS 2746 1.5-0.5 svidler looked shaky in rd1
14 Adams Michael ENG 2740 – Kryvoruchko Yuriy UKR 2678 1.5-0.5
15 Granda Zuniga Julio E PER 2664 – Leko Peter HUN 2744 0.5-1.5
16 Morozevich Alexander RUS 2739 – Leitao Rafael BRA 2632 2-0
17 Ragger Markus AUT 2680 – Vitiugov Nikita RUS 2719 1.5-2.5
18 Giri Anish NED 2737 – Li Chao b CHN 2693 3.5-2.5
19 Robson Ray USA 2623 – Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2731 1.5-0.5 omgomg
20 Radjabov Teimour AZE 2733 – Bruzon Batista Lazaro CUB 2698 5-4 very even, radja on a downswing and bruzon on an upswing after a long bad period
21 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son VIE 2625 – Andreikin Dmitry RUS 2716 2-4
22 Korobov Anton UKR 2720 – Jobava Baadur GEO 2696 0-2
23 Ortiz Reynaldo CUB 2609 – Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2719 0.5-1.5
24 Shirov Alexei LAT 2696 – Wei Yi CHN 2551 1.5-0.5
25 Hammer Jon Ludvig NOR 2605 – Navara David CZE 2715 0-2
26 Bacrot Etienne FRA 2714 – Moiseenko Alexander UKR 2699 3.5-4.5
27 Adhiban B. IND 2567 – Fier Alexandr BRA 2595 1.5-2.5
28 Jakovenko Dmitry RUS 2724 – Eljanov Pavel UKR 2702 3.5-2.5
29 Vallejo Pons Francisco ESP 2706 – Le Quang Liem VIE 2702 1.5-2.5
30 Areshchenko Alexander UKR 2709 – Felgaer Ruben ARG 2586 0.5-1.5
31 Fressinet Laurent FRA 2708 – Malakhov Vladimir RUS 2707 4.5-3.5
32 Tomashevsky Evgeny RUS 2706 – So Wesley PHI 2710 1.5-2.5

solid upset pick.

Hoping Shirov goes enters angry hulk mode like he did in that White game against Hou Yifan