🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Sergey Karjakin
⚫️Anton Smirnov
🔺 1-0

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️Anton Smirnov
⚫️Sergey Karjakin
🔺 0-1

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Mladen Palac
⚫️Ian Nepomniachtchi
🔺 ½-½

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️ Ian Nepomniachtchi
⚫️ Mladen Palac
🔺 ½-½

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 3
⚪️Mladen Palac
⚫️Ian Nepomniachtchi
🔺 ½-½

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️ Ian Nepomniachtchi
⚫️ Mladen Palac
🔺 1-0

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Murtas Kazhgaleyev
⚫️Vassily Ivanchuk
🔺 0-1

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 2
⚪️ Vassily Ivanchuk
⚫️ Murtas Kazhgaleyev
🔺 1-0

🔹 The interesting and tactical moments of the World Cup Round 1- Tie-break🔹

🏆Fide World Cup 2017

⚪️Michael Adams (2738)
⚫️Tsegmed Batchuluun (2555)

Results: 1-0

Black blunderd in an equal position.
1...f6?? 2.Rd5+ Ke6 3.Nc7+ 1-0

🏆Fide World Cup 2017

⚪️Vladimir Fedoseev (2731)
⚫️Yusnel Bacallao Alonso (2573)

Results: 1-0

An interesting combination by Russian super grandmaster
1.N.g6! R.g6 2.R.e6!±

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Murtas Kazhgaleyev (2576)
⚫️Vassily Ivanchuk (2728)
🔺 0-1

An standard idea is opening the Bc8's diagonal by playing e5.

🔸Fide World Cup 2017
🔸Round 1 Rapid Game 1
⚪️Murtas Kazhgaleyev (2576)
⚫️Vassily Ivanchuk (2728)
🔺 0-1

🔺 The only correct plan on the board. transferring the rook to f6 in order to attack on opponent's weakness 🔺