Author Archives: Yelena Dembo

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Very interesting tie-break day in Tromso yet again! Dubov managed to knock out Ponomariov – perhaps the biggest upset of the tie-breaks. Players who proceed to the 3rd round after tie-breaks are: Aronian, Kramnik, Kamsky, Hammer, Mamedyarov, Le Quang, Svidler, Radjabov, Karjakin, Dreev, Malakhov, Moiseenko, Kryvoruchko and Korobov.

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Live games.

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17 matches were decided yesterday! Caruana, Grischuk, Nakamura, Gelfand, Dominguez, Morozevich, Ivanchuk, etc have moved up to the 3rd round while today we will be watching 15 tie-breaks.

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Main upsets of the 2nd round are the eliminations of Leko and Shirov by Granda Zuniga and Wei Yi respectively.

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