Monday, August 24, 2015

Chess News

At The 3rd Sinquefield Cup 2015, Saint Louis, USA

Round 2 - 24.08.2015
Veselin Topalov (BUL,2798) - Hikaru Nakamura (USA,2814) 1-0
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA,2731) - Levon Aronian (ARM,2765) ½-½
Anish Giri (NED,2793) - Wesley So (USA,2779) ½-½
Fabiano Caruana (ITA,2808) - Magnus Carlsen (NOR,2876) 0-1
Alexander Grischuk (RUS,2771) - Viswanathan Anand (IND,2816) 1-0

Terrible start for Anand in this Sinquefield Cup ... He loses his second match in two rounds, this time against Grischuk with black ... Grischuk scored his first win against Anand in 12 years of classical chess with London system (1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4) ... Caruana had advantage against Carlsen but lost match in time trap ... Topalov continued with his terrific form and scored another convincing win over Nakamura to lead after two rounds.

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