World Chess Cup 2013 Round 2 Game 2: 17 Players in Round 3
Alexandra Kosteniuk's Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) 2013
Hi everyone,
The classical games of the second round of the World Chess Cup 2013 have been completed with 17 players securing qualification to the next round. Fifteen matches will continue with the rapid tie-breaks on Friday. Some of the top rated competitors, like Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Sergey Karjakin, could not break the opponents’ resistance and have each played a couple of draws.
On the other hand, Gata Kamsky was expected to go through after the success in the first game, but Russian Aleksandr Shimanov struck back on the second day to continue the fight in rapid.
Among the surprising results, the experienced Peruvian GM Julio Granda Zuniga eliminated Peter Leko, while the 14-years old Chinese Wei Yi stunned Alexei Shirov.
Another U2600 player going into the next round is Adhiban B. of India (2567) who beat Alexandr Fier from Brazil.
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Hi everyone,
The classical games of the second round of the World Chess Cup 2013 have been completed with 17 players securing qualification to the next round. Fifteen matches will continue with the rapid tie-breaks on Friday. Some of the top rated competitors, like Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Sergey Karjakin, could not break the opponents’ resistance and have each played a couple of draws.
On the other hand, Gata Kamsky was expected to go through after the success in the first game, but Russian Aleksandr Shimanov struck back on the second day to continue the fight in rapid.
Among the surprising results, the experienced Peruvian GM Julio Granda Zuniga eliminated Peter Leko, while the 14-years old Chinese Wei Yi stunned Alexei Shirov.
Another U2600 player going into the next round is Adhiban B. of India (2567) who beat Alexandr Fier from Brazil.
posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 1:30 PM
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