Round 1 results
| Caruana, Fabiano | – Eljanov, Pavel | 1-0 | |||
| So, Wesley | – Giri, Anish | 1-0 | |||
| Ding, Liren | – Adams, Michael | 1-0 | |||
| Mamedyarov, Shak | – Van Wely, Loek | ½-½ | |||
| Navara, David | – Carlsen, Magnus | ½-½ | |||
| Wei, Yi | – Tomashevsky, Evgeny | ½-½ | |||
| Hou, Yifan | – Karjakin, Sergey | ½-½ |
Challengers round 1 results
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | – Batsiashvili, Nino | 1-0 | |||
| Adhiban, Baskaran | – Abasov, Nijat | 1-0 | |||
| Safarli, Eltaj | – Sevian, Samuel | 1-0 | |||
| Dreev, Aleksey | – Bok, Benjamin | 1-0 | |||
| L’Ami, Erwin | – Admiraal, Miguoel | 1-0 | |||
| Antipov, Mikhail | – Ju, Wenjun | 0-1 | |||
| Haast, Anne | – Van Foreest, Jorden | 0-1 |
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