FIDE World Cup: First Games are Played

On September 3, the first games of the first round of the FIDE World Cup were played in Tbilisi. The majority of rating favourites won their games. The Russians Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler, Ernesto Inarkiev, Aleksey Dreev, Maxim Matlakov, Evgeniy Najer, and Vladislav Artemiev are among them.  However, some top seeds suffered their first losses. For example, Wei Yi lost to Bator Sambuev, Vladimir Fedoseev yielded to Bacallao Alonso, Gonzalez Vidal defeated Penta

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