Open Section
The 2nd round of the European Club Cup 2015 saw the top teams record comprehensive wins, thus continuing their dominance. However, individual upsets were witnessed as World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura and World No. 5 Anish Giri succumbed to 2500 GMs Yannick Pelletier and Vlastimil Babula respectively. Despite these upsets, their respective teams had no trouble whatsoever in scoring comfortable victories.
At the end of Round 2, as many as 12 teams boast a perfect score of 4/4.
Women’s Section
In the Women’s Section, the top two teams – Nona and SHSM Legacy Square – were pitted against each other right in the second round of the tournament. Riding on wins by Dzagnidze and Batsiashvili, ‘Nona’ notched up a narrow 2.5-1.5 victory over their arch-rivals.
After 2 rounds, a total of 3 teams are jointly leading the table with 4/4.