17 players advanced to the Third Round of the FIDE World Cup

#FIDEWorldCup players who advanced to R3:

Firouzja 🇮🇷, Harikrishna 🇮🇳, Wang 🇨🇳, Xu 🇨🇳, So 🇺🇸, Vidit 🇮🇳, Karjakin 🇷🇺, Nepomniachtchi 🇷🇺, Tomashevsky 🇷🇺, Andreikin 🇷🇺, Duda 🇵🇱, Mamedyarov 🇦🇿, Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷, Nisipeanu 🇩🇪, Aronian 🇦🇲, Artemiev 🇷🇺, Le🇻🇳.

15 tiebreaks tomorrow!

Nakamura got a consolation draw from a game in which he was dead lost, but he's been knocked out of the 2019 #FIDEWorldCup by Nisipeanu!

Refusing a safe play strategy, Dieter Nisipeanu takes the fight to Hikaru Nakamura with extremely sharp play (17...Qd5 18.b3 c4! 19.Rxd4 Qa5!).

A brilliant win for 16-year-old Alireza Firouzja, who will play Ding Liren or Movsesian in Round 3 of the #FIDEWorldCup!

37.exd6 with 30 seconds on its clock... this guy is gonna be good! #FIDEWorldCup

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Fantastic play by 16-year-old Alireza Firouzja (37.exd6!!). If he wins this, the game will surely be a strong candidate for the brilliancy prize.

Firouzja, Alireza - Dubov, Daniil

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FIDE World Cup 2019 round 2-2

FIDE World Cup 2019. Interview with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. | R2, G2 |

Wei Yi wins on demand with the black pieces to force tiebreaks tomorrow against David Anton!

Wei Yi demonstrated nerves of steel with a difficult win with the black pieces to tie the score in his match against David Antón Guijarro.