Round 2 Summary
1 decisive games and 3 drawn game in round 2.
Alexander Grischuk won a fabulous game against Wesley So, winning the opening battle but relying on the 30 second increment to reach move 40. A not unusual occurrence for Grischuk but exciting none the less. Grischuk went on to win the winning position. Good win for Grischuk but Wesley So all be it with two blacks in the first two rounds with it all to do.
All the others were drawn but with interesting games throughout. A Spanish Berlin from Kramnik and Karjakin, a Catalan from Ding Liren and Fabiano Caruana. The first to draw was Shakriyar Mamedyarov's game agains Levon Aronian in a Nimzo-Indian.
So the score after round 2 are :
All the others were drawn but with interesting games throughout. A Spanish Berlin from Kramnik and Karjakin, a Catalan from Ding Liren and Fabiano Caruana. The first to draw was Shakriyar Mamedyarov's game agains Levon Aronian in a Nimzo-Indian.
So the score after round 2 are :
| Shakiyar Mamedyarov | 1.5 |
| Vladimir Kramnik | 1.5 |
| Fabiano Caruana | 1 |
| Levon Aronian | 1 |
| Ding Liren | 1 |
| Alexander Grischuk | 1 |
| Sergey Karjakin | 0.5 |
| Wesley So | 0 |
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