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The World Chess Candidates Tournament – London 2013 2nd round

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Aronian-Gelfand
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Two games were decisive today and two were drawn. Aronian got a very pleasant position, won a pawn but 25…Rc8 shocked everyone. After 26.Bh6!! the game is lost. Ivanchuk transposed into a Leningrad Dutch but got a passive position without proper development quickly. In the time pressure both he and Radjabov played very interestingly and Black probably could have tried 33…g4 but it is nearly impossible to spot it having just seconds on the clock!

Results of the 2nd round

Round 2 on 2013/03/16 at 14.00

GM Carlsen Magnus 2872 ½ – ½ GM Kramnik Vladimir 2810
GM Grischuk Alexander 2764 ½ – ½ GM Svidler Peter 2747
GM Radjabov Teimour 2793 1 – 0 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2757
GM Aronian Levon 2809 1 – 0 GM Gelfand Boris 2740

Games of the round

The 3rd round is today at 2pm local time.

Pairings

Round 3 on 2013/03/17 at 14.00

GM Gelfand Boris 2740 – GM Carlsen Magnus 2872
GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2757 – GM Aronian Levon 2809
GM Svidler Peter 2747 – GM Radjabov Teimour 2793
GM Kramnik Vladimir 2810 – GM Grischuk Alexander 2764

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The World Chess Candidates Tournament – London 2013 1st round

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All 4 games were drawn. Kramnik played quite a risky move order as you will see from the games and in Ivanchuk-Grischuk game white played 20.Bf1 novelty with 20.Qd4 being the main line. Carlsen didn’t have too many problems on the way to equality and Gelfand’s approach didn’t promise him much as well.

The second round starts at 14.00 local time today.

Pairings

Carlsen-Kramnik
Grischuk-Svidler
Radjabov-Ivanchuk
Aronian-Gelfand

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