Round 1 results of Corus Chess live

Vishy Anand lost his opening game against Teimour Radjabov at the Corus Chess tournament that started today. In a semi-slav game, Anand made a couple of serious mistakes in the middle game to lose an exchange. Ironically, he held his own in the opening when his king was exposed. Anand was not able to demonstrate his Houdini-like end game wizardry and resigned after a long struggle.

Another mini-upset was the defeat of Topalov against Aronian. In a game of swinging fortunes, Aronian managed to stave off the many threats that Topalov produced at the early stages of the game. Topalov was clearly playing for a win and had to concede advantage. Aronian nursed home the advantage to a clear win in a Rook and pawn ending.

Mamedyarov resigned in a dead drawn position with Carlsen.
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Update : Hou Yifan lost her game to Bacrot as per the official site result. There was a lot of commotion on the chat but the king was placed in the center on a DGT board, perhaps.
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Corus Chess Round 1 results:

Group A

V. Kramnik - L. van Wely ½-½
T. Radjabov - V. Anand 1-0
S. Mamedyarov - M. Carlsen 0-1
P. Eljanov - P. Leko ½-½
M. Adams - B. Gelfand ½-½
L. Aronian - V. Topalov 1-0
V. Ivanchuk - J. Polgar ½-½

Gruop B

P. Harikrishna - N. Short ½-½
Y. Hou - E. Bacrot 0-1
D. Stellwagen - M. Krasenkow 1-0
W. Spoelman - I. Cheparinov 0-1
S. Movsesian - G. Sargissian ½-½
J. Smeets - H. Koneru 1-0
I. Nepomniachtchi - E. L’Ami ½-½

Group C

S. Li - I. Krush 1-0
A. Ushenina - J. van der Wiel 0-1
F. Nijboer - A. Braun 0-1
P. Negi - P. Carlsson 0-1
Z. Peng - F. Caruana 0-1
M. van der Werf - E. Grivas 1-0
D. Ruijgrok - D. Reinderman 0-1

Corus Chess update

Update

Kramnik - Van Wely (Draw)
Ivanchuk - Polgar (Draw)
Adams - Gelfand (Draw, what else)

In other interesting games in the other groups, Harikrishna was winning against Short but he seems to have messed up his winning chances. Same with Stellwagen and Li Chao, they both lost significant winning edges against Humpy and Irina Krush respectively.
Hou Yifan is putting up a good show against the 2700 Bacrot. A draw is still possible although Bacrot is piling on the pressure now.
The other prodigy Negi is almost equal against Sweden's Pontus Carlsson.