Gorodetsky Ilya: "Petr Svidler turned on an equal basis with Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchy almost into the main hope of the Russian chess on the World Cup"

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Gorodetsky Ilya estimated speech of the Russian chess players on the World Cup at Baku. Earlier in 1/16 finals of tournament left Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchy, Petr Svidler and Yesipenko Andrey "Always so passes a World Cup: someone from favourites passes as a knife through oil, and someone meets unexpected difficulties. It is possible to compare to "Grand Slam" tournament on tennis, there too the strongest win one part of a grid and already start battling with each other, and in another there are a lot of absolutely unknown names. We are waited by the fourth round: some matches will be very dense, for example, a meeting of two young stars – Andrey...
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Pyotr Svidler
Last position: The professional athlete on chess
Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchy
Last position: The professional athlete on chess
23
Khikaru Nakamura
Last position: The professional athlete on chess
20
Magnus Carlsen (Magnus Carlsen)
Last position: The professional athlete on chess
25
Rauf Mamedov
Last position: The professional athlete on chess