Qatar Masters Open 2015 1st round

Batsiashvili

Batsiashvili

(Photo taken from chess-news.ru)

The 1st round is over and most top players have won their games. The hero of the round was definitely Georgian IM Nino Batsiashvili who held the World Champion Magnus Carlsen to a draw!

Results of the top 10 games

1GMCarlsen Magnus28340½ – ½0IMBatsiashvili Nino2498
2GMKhotenashvili Bela249600 – 10GMKramnik Vladimir2796
3GMGiri Anish278401 – 00IMSunilduth Lyna Narayanan2494
4WGMGoryachkina Aleksandra249300 – 10GMSo Wesley2775
5GMKarjakin Sergey276601 – 00IMEzat Mohamed2490
6GMShoker Samy248900 – 10GMLi Chao B2750
7GMMamedyarov Shakhriyar274801 – 00GMZhukova Natalia2488
8IMSanal Vahap248700 – 10GMTomashevsky Evgeny2744
9GMHarikrishna P.27430½ – ½0GMAravindh Chithambaram Vr.2486
10IMTabatabaei M.Amin24820½ – ½0GMJakovenko Dmitry2737

Top 5 games of the round

Top 10 pairings of the 2nd round

GMKramnik Vladimir279611GMPiorun Kacper2637
GMGrandelius Nils263211GMGiri Anish2784
GMSo Wesley277511GMNaroditsky Daniel2628
GMSalem A.R. Saleh262211GMKarjakin Sergey2766
GMLi Chao B275011GMIpatov Alexander2619
GMZhang Zhong261911GMMamedyarov Shakhriyar2748
GMTomashevsky Evgeny274411GMBluebaum Matthias2590
GMBok Benjamin259411GMYu Yangyi2736
GMWojtaszek Radoslaw272311IMLin Chen2532
GMRambaldi Francesco256011GMKorobov Anton2713

View all the pairings here.

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