3rd Chess 960 World Cup
Wednesday, April 29, 2015: All the preliminary sections are now complete with the qualified players!
These are the qualified players:
1: Voll (RUS) & Ristea (ROU)
2: Korze (SLO) & Voveris (LTU)
3: Banet (FRA) & Hager (USA)
4: Churkin (RUS) & Ristea (ROU)
5: Koshmak (UKR) & Churkin (RUS)
6: Horvat (SLO) & David-Bordier (FRA)
7: Konovalenko (RUS) & Evans (ENG)
8: Konovalenko (RUS), Tsygankov (RUS) & Cintins (USA)
9: Shishkov (RUS) & Denisov (RUS)
10: David-Bordier (FRA) & Machycek (CZE)
11: Hybl (CZE) & Bondars (LAT)
12: Pajak (POL) & Morozov (RUS)
13: MacTilstra (CAN) & Isigkeit (GER)
14: Reutov (RUS) & Cintins (USA)
15: Sodomsky (POL), Petyrigin O. (RUS) & Craig (SCO)
16: Neborak (RUS) & Sodomski (POL)
The 3 best third from all sections: [5] Fortune (USA), score 7½, [4] Eremin (RUS) & [11] Alekseev (RUS), score 7.
Qualified directly for the Semi-Finals as finalist of 1st Chess 960 WC: Noble (NZL), Kribben J. (GER) & Nickel (GER).
The Semi-Finals will start on May, 15th with 8 sections of 5 players.
Qualification for the Final: the winner of each section.