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The 2019 Chess World Cup is a knockout competition which runs from the 9th September – 4th of October, and features 128 of the top chess players from all around the world.
To make this even more exciting for you and to support the Galway Chess Club, we want to encourage you to back a small selection of players in the hopes of winning some money.
Below is a ranked table of all 128 participants, each of whom can have at most one backer. For a fiver, you can choose three of these players to back (one from 1-40, one from 41-80, and one from 81-128.) If one of your backed players wins the tournament, you will win five times their ranking number (plus your original fiver); e.g. if you have backed Ding Liren and he wins, you get €10 back, if you have backed Wesley So and he wins, you get €25, and if you have backed Shaun Press and he wins, you get €645.
To enter, email us at galwaychess[at]gmail[dot]com, with your name (or nom-de-plume to display, in case you wish to keep your investment a secret for spousal/Revenue purposes), three selected players (one each from within ranges 1-40, 41-80, 81-128), and a promise to hand over a fiver to us at the next available opportunity. Given that there’ll be a max of one backer per player (in the interests of avoiding bankruptcy), we’ll operate on a first-come-first-served basis, and we’ll deal with any complications if and when they arrive. Any surplus will go towards the club’s rent for next year.
If all three of your choices make it through the first round, you may pick a free extra fourth player from any of the remaining unselected players.
If you enter after the first round has started, but before the start of the second, entry is €10 for three candidates, and you can’t select a fourth player.
Rank | Name | Rating | Eliminated? | Backer |
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1 | Ding Liren (CHN) | 2805 | Bill | |
2 | Anish Giri (NED) | 2779 | Round 3 | |
3 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA) | 2778 | James | |
4 | Wesley So (USA) | 2776 | Round 4 | Ian |
5 | Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS) | 2774 | Round 4 | Fintan |
6 | Levon Aronian (ARM) | 2765 | Conall | |
7 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) | 2764 | Round 4 | Shane |
8 | Leinier Domínguez (USA) | 2763 | ||
9 | Alexander Grischuk (RUS) | 2759 | Round 5 | Scott |
10 | Teimour Radjabov (AZE) | 2758 | ||
11 | Vladislav Artemiev (RUS) | 2757 | Round 3 | Pete |
12 | Yu Yangyi (CHN) | 2752 | Kevin | |
13 | Sergey Karjakin (RUS) | 2750 | Round 3 | Kevin |
14 | Hikaru Nakamura (USA) | 2743 | Round 2 | Fiona |
15 | Dmitry Andreikin (RUS) | 2743 | ||
16 | Radosław Wojtaszek (POL) | 2739 | ||
17 | Pentala Harikrishna (IND) | 2738 | ||
18 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda (POL) | 2730 | Round 4 | Bill |
19 | Peter Svidler (RUS) | 2729 | ||
20 | Nikita Vitiugov (RUS) | 2728 | ||
21 | Wei Yi (CHN) | 2727 | ||
22 | Le Quang Liem (VIE) | 2726 | ||
23 | David Navara (CZE) | 2724 | ||
24 | Bu Xiangzhi (CHN) | 2721 | ||
25 | Wang Hao (CHN) | 2720 | ||
26 | Sam Shankland (USA) | 2713 | Round 1 | Eamonn |
27 | Maxim Matlakov (RUS) | 2710 | ||
28 | Evgeny Tomashevsky (RUS) | 2706 | Round 3 | Maureen |
29 | Vidit Gujrathi (IND) | 2705 | ||
30 | Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS) | 2704 | ||
31 | Jeffery Xiong (USA) | 2703 | ||
32 | Alireza Firouzja (IRI) | 2702 | Round 3 | Zoran |
33 | Daniil Dubov (RUS) | 2699 | Round 2 | Pete |
34 | Bassem Amin (EGY) | 2692 | ||
35 | Gawain Jones (ENG) | 2692 | ||
36 | Nils Grandelius (SWE) | 2691 | ||
37 | Michael Adams (ENG) | 2690 | Round 1 | Diego |
38 | Boris Gelfand (ISR) | 2686 | ||
39 | Jorge Cori (PER) | 2686 | ||
40 | Maxim Rodshtein (ISR) | 2684 | Round 2 | Ian |
41 | Ernesto Inarkiev (RUS) | 2682 | Round 2 | Kevin |
42 | Luke McShane (ENG) | 2682 | Round 2 | Scott |
43 | Anton Korobov (UKR) | 2679 | Round 2 | Bill |
44 | David Antón Guijarro (ESP) | 2678 | ||
45 | Arkadij Naiditsch (AZE) | 2675 | ||
46 | Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) | 2675 | Round 1 | Diego |
47 | Tamir Nabaty (ISR) | 2673 | Round 2 | James |
48 | Vladimir Fedoseev (RUS) | 2671 | Round 2 | Pete |
49 | Kirill Alekseenko (RUS) | 2668 | ||
50 | Ferenc Berkes (HUN) | 2666 | ||
51 | Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (GER) | 2666 | Round 3 | Fiona |
52 | Samuel Sevian (USA) | 2665 | ||
53 | Baskaran Adhiban (IND) | 2665 | ||
54 | Ivan Cheparinov (GEO) | 2663 | Round 2 | Eamonn |
55 | Sanan Sjugirov (RUS) | 2662 | Round 2 | Maureen |
56 | Ivan Šarić (CRO) | 2660 | Round 1 | Zoran |
57 | Kacper Piorun (POL) | 2660 | ||
58 | Rustam Kasimdzhanov (UZB) | 2657 | ||
59 | Parham Maghsoodloo (IRI) | 2656 | Round 2 | Conall |
60 | Alexey Sarana (RUS) | 2655 | Round 1 | Fintan |
61 | Anton Demchenko (RUS) | 2655 | ||
62 | Igor Kovalenko (LAT) | 2654 | ||
63 | Benjamin Gledura (HUN) | 2654 | ||
64 | Sergei Movsesian (ARM) | 2654 | ||
65 | Grigoriy Oparin (RUS) | 2654 | ||
66 | Evgeniy Najer (RUS) | 2653 | ||
67 | Constantin Lupulescu (ROU) | 2652 | ||
68 | Robert Hovhannisyan (ARM) | 2650 | Round 1 | Shane |
69 | Alexandr Predke (RUS) | 2650 | ||
70 | Maksim Chigaev (RUS) | 2643 | ||
71 | Evgeny Bareev (CAN) | 2643 | ||
72 | Nijat Abasov (AZE) | 2640 | ||
73 | Benjamin Bok (NED) | 2640 | ||
74 | Sandro Mareco (ARG) | 2640 | ||
75 | Ahmed Adly (EGY) | 2636 | ||
76 | Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli (VEN) | 2635 | ||
77 | Aryan Tari (NOR) | 2634 | ||
78 | Mircea Parligras (ROU) | 2633 | ||
79 | Rinat Jumabayev (KAZ) | 2633 | ||
80 | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (VIE) | 2631 | ||
81 | Ganguly Surya Shekhar (IND) | 2630 | Round 1 | Scott |
82 | S.P. Sethuraman (IND) | 2630 | Round 1 | Fintan |
83 | Andrey Esipenko (RUS) | 2625 | Round 2 | Kevin |
84 | Niclas Huschenbeth (GER) | 2620 | Round 2 | Bill |
85 | S.L. Narayanan (IND) | 2618 | ||
86 | Abhijeet Gupta (IND) | 2616 | ||
87 | Neuris Delgado Ramirez (PAR) | 2612 | ||
88 | Karthikeyan Murali (IND) | 2612 | ||
89 | Mateusz Bartel (POL) | 2612 | Round 1 | Ian |
90 | Nihal Sarin (IND) | 2610 | Round 2 | Pete |
91 | Lu Shanglei (CHN) | 2610 | Round 1 | Conall |
92 | Aravindh Chithambaram (IND) | 2607 | Round 2 | Eamonn |
93 | Aleksandr Rakhmanov (RUS) | 2606 | Round 2 | Maureen |
94 | Diego Flores (ARG) | 2604 | ||
95 | Amin Tabatabaei (IRI) | 2601 | ||
96 | Emilio Cordova (PER) | 2599 | ||
97 | Arman Pashikian (ARM) | 2599 | ||
98 | Igor Lysyj (RUS) | 2596 | ||
99 | Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara (PER) | 2596 | Round 1 | Shane |
100 | Alan Pichot (ARG) | 2596 | ||
101 | Nikita Petrov (RUS) | 2595 | ||
102 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) | 2594 | Round 1 | Zoran |
103 | Eltaj Safarli (AZE) | 2593 | ||
104 | Aleksei Pridorozhni (RUS) | 2591 | ||
105 | Xu Xiangyu (CHN) | 2584 | ||
106 | Daniil Yuffa (RUS) | 2571 | ||
107 | Aleksej Aleksandrov (BLR) | 2571 | Round 1 | James |
108 | Miguel Santos Ruiz (ESP) | 2567 | ||
109 | Frode Urkedal (NOR) | 2566 | Round 1 | Fiona |
110 | Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera (CUB) | 2566 | ||
111 | Cristobal Henriquez Villagra (CHI) | 2562 | ||
112 | Yuri Gonzalez Vidal (CUB) | 2554 | ||
113 | Johan-Sebastian Christiansen (NOR) | 2554 | ||
114 | Krikor Mekhitarian (BRA) | 2554 | ||
115 | Bilel Bellahcene (ALG) | 2550 | ||
116 | Susanto Megaranto (INA) | 2545 | ||
117 | Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami (IRI) | 2539 | ||
118 | Ilia Iljiushenok (RUS) | 2533 | ||
119 | Helgi Dam Ziska (FRO) | 2533 | ||
120 | Paulius Pultinevičius (LTU) | 2485 | ||
121 | Alder Escobar Forero (COL) | 2477 | ||
122 | Fy Antenaina Rakotomaharo (MAD) | 2438 | ||
123 | Essam El Gindy (EGY) | 2423 | ||
124 | Sugar Gan-Erdene (MGL) | 2408 | Round 1 | Diego |
125 | Sergio Duran Vega (CRI) | 2395 | ||
126 | Daniel Anwuli (NGR) | 2284 | ||
127 | Mohammad Fahad Rahman (BAN) | 2250 | ||
128 | Shaun Press (PNG) | 1954 |