7/23/2013 – Yesterday all the games were drawn, today all brought decisions: Etienne Bacrot beat Ding Linren with white, while Alexander Moiseenko and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave overcame Richard Rapport and Ian Nepomniachtchi with the black pieces. Our full report is now up, with pictures and video interviews with the players, and a video summary of the round by GM Daniel King.
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The GM tournament this year is in memory of Olivier
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in Biel. The tournament is a ten-round double round robin, played from July
22nd to August 1st, with games starting at 2 p.m. local time.
Round two report
23.07.2013 14:00: Round 2
Etienne Bacrot
-
Ding Liren
1-0
(43)
Richard Rapport
-
Alexander Moiseenko
0-1
(38)
Ian Nepomniachtchi
-
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
0-1
(63)
Full summary of round two by GM Daniel King
Richard Rapport (above left) came out well
from this B31 Sicilian but over-optimistically sacrificed a pawn and never
recovered from the advantage it gave...
... the winner of this game Alexander Moiseenko
Etienne Bacrot (above) was not doing too well
against Ding Liren's King's Indian...
... but the Chinese GM grabbed a pawn and got
a position that he could not defend.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave gained a small advantage
in a Grünfeld and ground down...
... Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who had
to resign after 63 moves.
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