Masters
All the seven games in the second round of the ongoing Tata Steel Masters 2016 resulted in draws. Although the Carlsen-Caruana clash, which witnessed a fairly non-standard opening, proved to be exciting, the rest of the games were pretty sedate affairs.
Going into the third round, GMs Caruana, Wesley So and Ding Liren are in lead with 1.5 points each.
Results:
|
Carlsen |
½-½ | Caruana |
| Eljanov | ½-½ |
Wei Yi |
|
Tomashevsky |
½-½ | Mamedyarov |
|
Adams |
½-½ | Navara |
| Giri | ½-½ |
Ding Liren |
| Karjakin | ½-½ |
Van Wely |
|
Hou Yifan |
½-½ |
So Wesley |
Challengers
On the other hand, the Challengers section continued to generate entertaining battles. As many as 5 games ended decisively in the second round of this tournament. After two rounds of fighting chess, GM Adhiban and GM Dreev are jointly leading the field with perfect scores.
Results:
|
van Foreest |
0-1 | Batsiashvili |
| Abasov | ½-½ |
Safarli |
|
Sevian |
½-½ | Nisipeanu |
|
Admiraal |
0-1 | Adhiban |
| Bok | 1-0 |
L’ami E |
| Haast | 0-1 |
Antipov |
|
Ju Wenjun |
0-1 |
Dreev |