Chess tournament
The Chess World Cup 2013 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, played between 11 August and 2 September 2013, in the hotel Scandic Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway.[1][2] It was won by Vladimir Kramnik, who defeated Dmitry Andreikin 2½–1½ in the final match.[3] The finalists qualified for the 2014 Candidates Tournament.
The winner of the Chess World Cup 2011, Peter Svidler, was defeated by Dmitry Andreikin in the quarter-finals.
Participants
The participating players were seeded by their July 2013 FIDE ratings:[5]
- 01. Levon Aronian (ARM), 2813 (R)
- 02. Fabiano Caruana (ITA), 2796 (R)
- 03. Vladimir Kramnik (RUS), 2784 (R)
- 04. Alexander Grischuk (RUS), 2780 (WC)
- 05. Sergey Karjakin (RUS), 2776 (R)
- 06. Hikaru Nakamura (USA), 2775 (R)
- 07. Boris Gelfand (ISR), 2773 (R)
- 08. Gata Kamsky (USA), 2763 (R)
- 09. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE), 2761 (R)
- 10. Leinier Domínguez (CUB), 2757 (R)
- 11. Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR), 2756 (WC)
- 12. Wang Hao (CHN), 2752 (R)
- 13. Peter Svidler (RUS), 2746 (WC)
- 14. Michael Adams (ENG), 2740 (R)
- 15. Peter Leko (HUN), 2737 (R)
- 16. Alexander Morozevich (RUS), 2736 (R)
- 17. Nikita Vitiugov (RUS), 2734 (E12)
- 18. Anish Giri (NED), 2734 (R)
- 19. Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR), 2733 (WC)
- 20. Teimour Radjabov (AZE), 2733 (R)
- 21. Dmitry Andreikin (RUS), 2727 (E12)
- 22. Anton Korobov (UKR), 2720 (E13)
- 23. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA), 2719 (PN)
- 24. Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS), 2717 (R)
- 25. David Navara (CZE), 2715 (PN)
- 26. Étienne Bacrot (FRA), 2714 (E12)
- 27. Evgeny Alekseev (RUS), 2714 (E13)
- 28. Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS), 2713 (E12)
- 29. Lê Quang Liêm (VIE), 2712 (AS13)
- 30. Alexander Areshchenko (UKR), 2709 (E13)
- 31. Vladimir Malakhov (RUS), 2709 (E12)
- 32. Evgeny Tomashevsky (RUS), 2709 (R)
- 33. Wesley So (PHI), 2708 (Z3.3)
- 34. Laurent Fressinet (FRA), 2708 (E12)
- 35. Alexander Riazantsev (RUS), 2708 (E12)
- 36. Francisco Vallejo Pons (ESP), 2706 (E12)
- 37. Pavel Eljanov (UKR), 2702 (E13)
- 38. Radosław Wojtaszek (POL), 2701 (R)
- 39. Alexander Moiseenko (UKR), 2699 (E13)
- 40. Sergei Movsesian (ARM), 2699 (E13)
- 41. Alexei Shirov (LAT), 2696 (R)
- 42. Judit Polgár (HUN), 2696 (PN)
- 43. Baadur Jobava (GEO), 2693 (E12)
- 44. Vladimir Akopian (ARM), 2691 (E12)
- 45. Lázaro Bruzón (CUB), 2689 (Z2.3)
- 46. Andrei Volokitin (UKR), 2688 (E12)
- 47. Li Chao (CHN), 2686 (AS13)
- 48. Markus Ragger (AUT), 2680 (E13)
- 49. Ernesto Inarkiev (RUS), 2680 (E12)
- 50. Julio Granda (PER), 2679 (AM12)
- 51. Yuriy Kryvoruchko (UKR), 2678 (E12)
- 52. Victor Bologan (MDA), 2672 (E12)
- 53. Alexey Dreev (RUS), 2668 (E12)
- 54. Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR), 2667 (E13)
- 55. Alexander Onischuk (USA), 2667 (Z2.1)
- 56. Maxim Matlakov (RUS), 2665 (E12)
- 57. Aleksandr Shimanov (RUS), 2664 (E13)
- 58. Evgeny Romanov (RUS), 2662 (E13)
- 59. Eltaj Safarli (AZE), 2660 (E13)
- 60. Krishnan Sasikiran (IND), 2660 (AS13)
- 61. Vadim Zvjaginsev (RUS), 2659 (E13)
- 62. Denis Khismatullin (RUS), 2658 (E12)
- 63. Yu Yangyi (CHN), 2657 (AS12)
- 64. Igor Lysyj (RUS), 2656 (E13)
- 65. Andrei Istrățescu (FRA), 2651 (E13)
- 66. Alexander Beliavsky (SLO), 2651 (E13)
- 67. Mikhail Kobalia (RUS), 2651 (E12)
- 68. Dariusz Świercz (POL), 2650 (J11)
- 69. Constantin Lupulescu (ROU), 2650 (E13)
- 70. Bassem Amin (EGY), 2650 (AF)
- 71. Anton Filippov (UZB), 2643 (Z3.4)
- 72. Gawain Jones (ENG), 2643 (E12)
- 73. Jan Smeets (NED), 2643 (E12)
- 74. Eduardo Iturrizaga (VEN), 2642 (Z2.3)
- 75. Daniil Dubov (RUS), 2638 (E13)
- 76. Sergei Azarov (BLR), 2636 (E12)
- 77. Zbyněk Hráček (CZE), 2635 (E13)
- 78. Parimarjan Negi (IND), 2634 (AS12)
- 79. Hrant Melkumyan (ARM), 2632 (E13)
- 80. Rafael Leitão (BRA), 2632 (Z2.4)
- 81. Ivan Popov (RUS), 2632 (E13)
- 82. Evgeny Postny (ISR), 2631 (E13)
- 83. Ray Robson (USA), 2628 (Z2.1)
- 84. Evgeniy Najer (RUS), 2628 (E12)
- 85. Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn (VIE), 2625 (Z3.3)
- 86. Martyn Kravtsiv (UKR), 2620 (E13)
- 87. Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez (CUB), 2612 (AM13)
- 88. Hou Yifan (CHN), 2600 (PN)
- 89. Jon Ludvig Hammer (NOR), 2599 (ON)
- 90. Ahmed Adly (EGY), 2596 (AF)
- 91. Alexandr Fier (BRA), 2595 (Z2.4)
- 92. Sabino Brunello (ITA), 2593 (E13)
- 93. Diego Flores (ARG), 2592 (AM13)
- 94. Rubén Felgaer (ARG), 2586 (Z2.5)
- 95. Larry Christiansen (USA), 2584 (Z2.1)
- 96. Alexander Ipatov (TUR), 2583 (J12)
- 97. Alejandro Ramírez (USA), 2583 (Z2.1)
- 98. Eric Hansen (CAN), 2581 (AM12)
- 99. Gregory Kaidanov (USA), 2577 (AM12)
- 100. Oliver Barbosa (PHI), 2572 (AS12)
- 101. Mark Paragua (PHI), 2569 (AS13)
- 102. Adhiban Baskaran (IND), 2567 (AS13)
- 103. Simen Agdestein (NOR), 2567 (ON)
- 104. Sandro Mareco (ARG), 2562 (Z2.5)
- 105. Wei Yi (CHN), 2557 (PN)
- 106. Alexander Shabalov (USA), 2553 (AM12)
- 107. Vasif Durarbayli (AZE), 2549 (E12)
- 108. Pouria Darini (IRI), 2548 (Z3.1)
- 109. Jorge Cori (PER), 2543 (AM13)
- 110. Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL), 2536, IM (PN)
- 111. Salem Saleh (UAE), 2531 (AS12)
- 112. Conrad Holt (USA), 2530 (Z2.1)
- 113. Bator Sambuev (CAN), 2530 (Z2.2)
- 114. Leif Erlend Johannessen (NOR), 2520 (ON)
- 115. Wan Yunguo (CHN), 2509, IM (Z3.5)
- 116. Anna Ushenina (UKR), 2500 (WWC)
- 117. Liu Qingnan (CHN), 2500, IM (AS12)
- 118. Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen (NOR), 2492, IM (ON)
- 119. Essam El-Gindy (EGY), 2490 (AF)
- 120. Samy Shoker (EGY), 2487, IM (Z4.2)
- 121. Lou Yiping (CHN), 2483, IM (Z3.5)
- 122. Ziaur Rahman (BAN), 2470 (Z3.2)
- 123. Deysi Cori (PER), 2434, WGM (AM13)
- 124. Ali Sebbar (MAR), 2371, untitled (Z4.1)
- 125. Igor Bjelobrk (AUS), 2341, FM (Z3.6)
- 126. Gillan Bwalya (ZAM), 2341, FM (Z4.3)
- 127. G. Akash (IND), 2332, IM (Z3.7)
- 128. Mikhail Markov (KGZ), 2305, untitled (Z3.4)
All players are grandmasters unless indicated otherwise.
Qualification paths
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- AS12 and AS13: Asian Chess Championship 2012 and 2013
- AF: African Chess Championship 2013
- Z2.1, Z2.2, Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1, Z3.2, Z3.3, Z3.4, Z3.5, Z3.6, Z3.7, Z4.1, Z4.2, Z4.3: Zonal tournaments
- PN: FIDE president nominee
- ON: Organizer nominee
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Prominent non-participants
Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, and Veselin Topalov qualified for the event, but they declined to participate. The only other player from the world's top 30 who did not participate is Ding Liren.[6] Levon Aronian (who declined to play in 2009 and 2011) and Vladimir Kramnik (who had never played in a Chess World Cup) chose to participate because FIDE made participation in either the Chess World Cup or the FIDE Grand Prix series mandatory for qualification to the 2014 Candidates Tournament through rating.[7]
Post-tournament opinions
In particular, Alexander Grischuk was decidedly negative about the organization, as was noted coach Vladimir Chuchelov.[8][9]