In the first game of the second Round Vladimir Potkin of Russia playing White attacked Alexey Shirov in a very energetic way and it seemed that he did not play a very exhausting tie-break the day before.

The chess player from Saint Petersburg started his second Round with a beautiful victory. After the game the Grandmaster told the journalists how he gets prepared to the game. — Please tell us about the tie break games at first. — The distinctive feature of this tournament is tie break games. I have some experience of [...]

We saw Yuri Drozdovskij at dinner after tie-breaks. To my question about the development of the games the winner of the most difficult match of the first Round said: «He missed all the goals»- and left to get some sauce.

Azeri Grandmaster Vugar Gashimov confidently outplayed his opponent of the 1st Round Erik Hansen from Canada and was qualified to the next round.

After the tense battle the multifold French Champion Etienne Bacrot managed to defeat his young opponent Ray Robson from America.  Both Grandmasters came to the press conference.

The Grandmaster Sebastien Feller who was accused in cheating at the 39th World Chess Olympiad by the French Chess Federation, came to Khanty-Mansiysk again.

The tournament starts in the Open Stadium «Ugra-athletics» of Khanty Mansiysk tomorrow, 31 August.

The third day of the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk has finalized the results of the first Round.