Nanjing, Round 1 Pairings
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 6:29PM
Dennis Monokroussos

The tournament is in Nanjing, China, which means it starts earlier (relatively speaking) than most events. More specifically, 2:30 a.m. ET (8:30 a.m. CET) tomorrow/today. Here are the first round pairings:

Anand - Wang Yue

Carlsen - Bacrot

Topalov - Gashimov

Get your predictions in now. Which of the players with White in round 1 will win the tournament? (It's not impossible that one of the other three will win...but I wouldn't bet on them, even with someone else's money. [Of course, I'm not going to bet, period; it's just a figure of speech in my case.])

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