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Tie-breaks are always exciting. In the first round tie breaks the match between Sargissian and Bartel went right upto the armageddon stage. Sargissian finally won! Vidit and Adhiban both were eliminated by their opponents Bruzon and Fedoseev in first two rapid games itself.
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Two Indians had to pack their bags and leave Baku - Lalith Babu and Surya Shekhar Ganguly. Two of them advanced to the round two Harikrishna and Sethuraman, while Adhiban and Vidit will fight it out in the tie-breaks tomorrow against Fedoseev and Bruzon respectively.
The first round of World Cup 2015 started with 128 players and almost all the big names in the chess world like Veselin Topalov, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Levon Aronian etc. All the top seeds had a pretty easy day as almost all of them won their games.But what about the Indians? How did the six of them fare? Here's a detailed account of what happened in each one's game:
