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 ...