16 September 2015
World Cup Round 2 Tie-Break Results
Grischuk, Karjakin, Svidler, Jakovenko, Tomashevsky, and Nepomniachtchi advanced.
The tie-break matches of the World Cup's Second Round were played on September 16 in Baku.
In rapid games Hikaru Nakamura defeated Samuel Shankland, Anish Giri defeated Alexander Motylev, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Hou Yifan, Teimour Radjabov defeated Ilya Smirin, Alexander Areschenko defeated Levon Aronian, Peter Svidler defeated Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Le Quang Liem defeated Nikita Vitiugov, and Dmitry Jakovenko defeated Bassem Amin.
In the 10-minute games Alexander Grischuk knocked out Vladimir Fedoseev, Evgeny Tomashevsky outplayed Nguyen, Sergey Karjakin defeated Alexander Onischuk, and Yu Yangyi prevailed over Igor Lysyj.
Blitz games brought victories to Ian Nepomniachtchi (over Laurent Fressinet) and Wei Yi (over Yury Vovk).
In the only tie-break that reached an Armageddon game, Michael Adams, playing White, swept through Victor Laznicka.
