From Indonesia, Reported by potretcatur.blogspot.com, GM Susanto Megaranto just arrived on site on Friday. Susanto come with his trainer and directly from Yekaterinburg, especially trained for his round one against Vietnam super GM Le Quang Liem. Liem is hundreds point above his South Eastern Asian colleague.
I repeat the pairing and bolded some interesting pairing
Pairing for round 1:
1 GM Karjakin, Sergey RUS – IM Kaabi, Mejdi TUN
2 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR – FM Steel, Henry Robert RSA
3 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE – Ibrahim, Hatim EGY
4 GM Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR – IM Gwaze, Robert ZIM
5 GM Gashimov, Vugar AZE – IM Hansen, Eric CAN
6 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS – IM Genba, Vladimir RUS
7 GM Radjabov, Teimour AZE – GM De La Paz Perdomo, Frank CUB
8 GM Kamsky, Gata USA – IM Di Berardino, Diego Rafael BRA
9 GM Svidler, Peter RUS – GM Lima, Darcy BRA
10 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS – GM Salem, A.R. Saleh UAE
11 GM Vitiugov, Nikita RUS – GM Bezgodov, Alexei RUS
12 GM Almasi, Zoltan HUN – GM El Gindy, Essam EGY
13 GM Vallejo Pons, Francisco ESP – GM Cori, Jorge PER
14 GM Navara, David CZE – GM Kabanov, Nikolai RUS
15 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA – GM Rahman, Ziaur BAN
16 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier CUB – GM Moradiabadi, Elshan IRI
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18 GM Leko, Peter HUN – GM Shankland, Samuel L USA
19 GM Moiseenko, Alexander UKR – GM Esen, Baris TUR
20 GM Le, Quang Liem VIE – GM Megaranto, Susanto INA
21 GM Adams, Michael ENG – GM Paragua, Mark PHI
22 GM Shirov, Alexei ESP – GM Leon Hoyos, Manuel MEX
23 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO – GM Guliyev, Namig AZE
24 GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA – GM Pridorozhni, Aleksei RUS
25 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS – IM Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynald CUB
26 GM Bacrot, Etienne FRA – GM Robson, Ray USA
27 GM Wang, Yue CHN – GM Fier, Alexandr BRA
28 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny RUS – GM Zhao, Zong-Yuan AUS
29 GM Efimenko, Zahar UKR – GM Babula, Vlastimil CZE
30 GM Malakhov, Vladimir RUS – GM Felgaer, Ruben ARG
31 GM Sutovsky, Emil ISR – GM Vorobiov, Evgeny E. RUS
32 GM Movsesian, Sergei ARM – GM Hou, Yifan CHN
33 GM Polgar, Judit HUN – GM Corrales Jimenez, Fidel CUB
34 GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA – GM Jumabayev, Rinat KAZ
35 GM Eljanov, Pavel UKR – GM Zherebukh, Yaroslav UKR
36 GM Berkes, Ferenc HUN – GM Mareco, Sandro ARG
37 GM Andreikin, Dmitry RUS – GM Kazhgaleyev, Murtas KAZ
38 GM Morozevich, Alexander RUS – GM Halkias, Stelios GRE
39 GM Zhigalko, Sergei BLR – GM Filippov, Anton UZB
40 GM Riazantsev, Alexander RUS – GM Bluvshtein, Mark CAN
41 GM Motylev, Alexander RUS – GM Drozdovskij, Yuri UKR
42 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL – GM Pashikian, Arman ARM
43 GM Potkin, Vladimir RUS – GM Shulman, Yuri USA
44 GM Nielsen, Peter Heine DEN – GM Postny, Evgeny ISR
45 GM Grachev, Boris RUS – GM Romanov, Evgeny RUS
46 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto RUS – GM Salgado Lopez, Ivan ESP
47 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE – GM Gupta, Abhijeet IND
48 GM Kobalia, Mikhail RUS – GM Lysyj, Igor RUS
49 GM Bologan, Viktor MDA – GM Socko, Bartosz POL
50 GM Bu, Xiangzhi CHN – GM Adly, Ahmed EGY
51 GM Onischuk, Alexander USA – GM Ivanisevic, Ivan SRB
52 GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro CUB – GM Quesada Perez, Yuniesky CUB
53 GM Yu, Yangyi CHN – GM Parligras, Mircea-Emilian ROU
54 GM Korobov, Anton UKR – GM Zhou, Jianchao CHN
55 GM Harikrishna, P. IND – GM Rodshtein, Maxim ISR
56 GM Li, Chao b CHN – GM Nguyen, Ngoc Truong Son VIE
57 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB – GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU
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59 GM Feller, Sebastien FRA – GM Iordachescu, Viorel MDA
60 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS – GM Azarov, Sergei BLR
61 GM Ni, Hua CHN – GM Khairullin, Ildar RUS
62 GM Fridman, Daniel GER – GM Lupulescu, Constantin ROU
63 GM Alekseev, Evgeny RUS – GM Ragger, Markus AUT
64 GM So, Wesley PHI – GM Ding, Liren CHN
