The second round of the Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona Tournament 2015 saw all the three games end in draws. However, the games were not devoid of some interesting chess.
The most exciting game of the day was top-seed GM Alexander Morozevich’s draw against GM Balogh Csaba. Having commenced the game with 1.b3, Morozevich secured a pleasant advantage out of the opening, which he held right through to the endgame. However, a couple of errors on moves 35 and 36 not only saw the Russian GM lose his advantage but also end up much worse. Balogh, on his part, was unable to take advantage of his opponents errors and the game finally ended peacefully.
After two rounds, Morozevich is leading the field solely with a total of 1.5 points.