Aronian dominates again, beats Gelfand
Levon Aronian of Armenia seems to be in top form so far. Today he beat Gelfand with the black pieces in a Slav Defence game in impressive style.
Carlsen beat Eljanov. As we mentioned before, Eljanov appears to be overwhelmed by the strong field. Carlsen ground him down with his usual efficiency.
Vishy Anand had his chances and dominated proceedings for a long time, but let the harassed Mamedyarov off the hook with an error in a Rooks and pawns end game.
Van Wely too dominated only to let Polgar escape with a draw.
Results of Round 2 at Corus chess:
Group A
Carlsen, Magnus - Eljanov, Pavel 1-0 Gruenfeld 5.Bg5
Kramnik, Vladimir - Radjabov, Teimour ½-½ King's Indian Classical
Van Wely, Loek - Polgar, Judit ½-½ Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3
Lékó, Peter - Adams, Michael (Prob a draw) Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Topalov, Veselin - Ivanchuk, Vassily ½-½ Benoni
Gelfand, Boris - Aronian, Levon 0-1 30 Slav Defence
Anand, Viswanathan - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar ½-½ Ruy Lopez Modern Steinitz
Group B
Short, Nigel D - L'Ami, Erwin 1-0 Evans Gambit
Bacrot, Etienne - Stellwagen, Daniël ½-½ Sicilian Scheveningen
Harikrishna, P - Hou Yifan 1-0 French Defence
Cheparinov, Ivan - Movsesian, Sergei ½-½ Slav Defence
Sargissian, Gabriel - Smeets, Jan ½-½ Slav Defence
Krasenkow, Michal - Spoelman, Wouter 1-0 Queens Indian
Koneru, Humpy - Nepomniachtchi, Ian ½-½ Dutch
Group C
Caruana, Fabiano - Van der Werf, Mark 1-0 Ruy Lopez
Li Shilong - Ushenina, Anna 1-0 Gruenfeld Defence
Braun, Arik - Negi, Parimarjan 1-0 English Symmetrical
Van der Wiel, John - Nijboer, Friso 1-0 Ruy Lopez
Carlsson, Pontus - Peng Zhaoqin ½-½ Sicilian Paulsen
Grivas, Efstratios - Ruijgrok, Dennis 1-0 Dutch, QI and KID Systems
Krush, Irina - Reinderman, Dimitri ½-½ King's Indian Averbakh
Carlsen beat Eljanov. As we mentioned before, Eljanov appears to be overwhelmed by the strong field. Carlsen ground him down with his usual efficiency.
Vishy Anand had his chances and dominated proceedings for a long time, but let the harassed Mamedyarov off the hook with an error in a Rooks and pawns end game.
Van Wely too dominated only to let Polgar escape with a draw.
Results of Round 2 at Corus chess:
Group A
Carlsen, Magnus - Eljanov, Pavel 1-0 Gruenfeld 5.Bg5
Kramnik, Vladimir - Radjabov, Teimour ½-½ King's Indian Classical
Van Wely, Loek - Polgar, Judit ½-½ Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3
Lékó, Peter - Adams, Michael (Prob a draw) Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Topalov, Veselin - Ivanchuk, Vassily ½-½ Benoni
Gelfand, Boris - Aronian, Levon 0-1 30 Slav Defence
Anand, Viswanathan - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar ½-½ Ruy Lopez Modern Steinitz
Group B
Short, Nigel D - L'Ami, Erwin 1-0 Evans Gambit
Bacrot, Etienne - Stellwagen, Daniël ½-½ Sicilian Scheveningen
Harikrishna, P - Hou Yifan 1-0 French Defence
Cheparinov, Ivan - Movsesian, Sergei ½-½ Slav Defence
Sargissian, Gabriel - Smeets, Jan ½-½ Slav Defence
Krasenkow, Michal - Spoelman, Wouter 1-0 Queens Indian
Koneru, Humpy - Nepomniachtchi, Ian ½-½ Dutch
Group C
Caruana, Fabiano - Van der Werf, Mark 1-0 Ruy Lopez
Li Shilong - Ushenina, Anna 1-0 Gruenfeld Defence
Braun, Arik - Negi, Parimarjan 1-0 English Symmetrical
Van der Wiel, John - Nijboer, Friso 1-0 Ruy Lopez
Carlsson, Pontus - Peng Zhaoqin ½-½ Sicilian Paulsen
Grivas, Efstratios - Ruijgrok, Dennis 1-0 Dutch, QI and KID Systems
Krush, Irina - Reinderman, Dimitri ½-½ King's Indian Averbakh
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