Nigel Short crashed out of the World Chess Championship at the first hurdle as he lost a speed chess tie breaker to the German David Baramidze at the Fide World Cup taking place in the Siberian city of Khanty Masisyk. As reported yesterday Michael Adams is safely through to the second round where he will play Mikhail Gurevich, an ex Russian now playing for Turkey and a very tough customer. The top chess seed Vasily Ivanchuk will play Mateusz Bartel of Poland. One hundred and twenty eight chess players are competing for $1,600,000 in prize money and the right to a world title final eliminator against Veselin Topalov. There were few surprises in round one. In one or two cases the stronger chess player lost game one but won the return and ...

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