World Cup Chess 2011

World Cup chess 2011 is being held in Khanty- Mansiysk,at Russia.Serjey Karjakin is the top seed.World no.1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway,Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik are not playing.In the first game of the first round,most of the favourites won their games while Peter Leko lost to Gm Samuel Shankland,GM Fier defeated GM Wang Yue of China.