A year ago after super final of the Russian championship Kasparov said that Motylev represent the future of Russian chess. Alexander begun that tournament not very good, but at the end he was winning almost all matches and he successfully played against Garry Kimovich. This year didn’t prove and didn’t denied master’s resume: A man from Yekaterinburg mixed his victories with his misfortunes. He was expected to play good at the World Cup, but he lost after the second round.

One more high-rating player is leaving a tournament. He has lost to an ex-soviet, Turkish player Michael Gurevich.

Solemn reception of Khanty-Mansiysk`s Mayor Valeriy Sudeikin took place 5 of December. Participants, World Chess Cup organizers and representatives of the World Chess Federation were honored at that reception.

On the 10th of December 2005 Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug will celebrate its anniversary - 75 years since establishment. Square: 534.8 thousand km. Population: 1480.6 thousand people. Ugra consists of 14 towns of Okrug subordination, 2 towns of district subordination, 9 districts. Administrative centre is Khanty-Mansiysk.

Norwegian star Magnus Carlsen won one by one all his opponents on the World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. Between games he goes skiing on the local tracks.

Moldovian chess player Viorel Bologan is a unique person in a chess world. He is famous not only as a strong chess player, but also as an organizer, a social person who advertisements chess! Bologan was always a sociable person, his fast leaving the World Cup didn’t influence this fact. Maybe just a little... Perhaps at that moment he was thinking about future tournaments.

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The Kazakh chess player participated at this kind of tournament for the first time. Nevertheless he was playing great, and he might become the sensation of the second round.

Armenian GM, Levon Aronian, is one of the greatest players on the World Cup, together with Carlsen is the most interesting figure for everybody. But if all follows the games of 15-years old Norwegian with surprise and admiration - for how long will he go on – the Aronian’s successes are not surprising for anybody for a long time. During the last year Levon came into the first World ten top and is not going to stop on it. The same is in Khanty- Mansiysk – he won first five games and only the sixth was played draw. Aronian who easily agreed to take part in a conference charmed the public with his sincere answers and laugh...

Holland is represented by many brilliant GMs and even by the World Champion Eiwe. But nowadays one of the strongest is the player who has never had ambitions of a Champion. It seems that Loek Van Wely always plays for his own pleasure. But every year he becomes stronger and more experienced