European Championship: Two out of two

Nine rounds to go

Romanian grandmaster Vladislav Nevednichy had a few opportunities, in his game against Alexander Donchenko, to get out of the predicament he got into early on, but failed to take advantage of them.

After a serious oversight, the game ended abruptly in the German’s favour.

Rasmus Svane’s game against Bulgarian IM Tsvetan Stoyanov had a curious resemblance to Donchenko’s in the end, at least on a superficial level.

The other two German grandmasters were less successful in round 2: Frederik Svane had to settle for a draw against Romanian IM Alexandru-Vasile David, while Dmitrij Kollars lost to Israeli FM Matan Gorodetzky.

Boris Gelfand

Boris Gelfand (born 1968) is the senior member of the leadership group.

David Navara

David Navara has fallen back a bit from the absolute top of the world in recent years - at the EICC he is seeded number four

Standings - Round 2

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	K	rtg+/-
1	1	GM	Sargissian Gabriel				2699	2	0	2	2	10	3,5
	4	GM	Navara David				2685	2	0	2	2	10	3,7
	5	GM	Moussard Jules				2684	2	0	2	2	10	3,7
	9	GM	Gelfand Boris	S50			2674	2	0	2	2	10	3,7
	10	GM	Saric Ivan				2674	2	0	2	2	10	3,7
	11	GM	Sarana Alexey				2668	2	0	2	2	10	3,8
	12	GM	Shevchenko Kirill				2668	2	0	2	2	10	3,8
	18	GM	Korobov Anton				2658	2	0	2	2	10	3,8
	22	GM	Nguyen Thai Dai Van				2651	2	0	2	2	10	3,8
	23	GM	Gledura Benjamin				2637	2	0	2	2	10	4
	28	GM	Sargsyan Shant				2630	2	0	2	2	10	4,1
	29	GM	Abasov Nijat				2625	2	0	2	2	10	4,1
	30	GM	Kovalev Vladislav				2623	2	0	2	2	10	4,2
	44	GM	Safarli Eltaj				2608	2	0	2	2	10	4,3
	48	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios				2599	2	0	2	2	10	4,2
	55	GM	Paravyan David				2584	2	0	2	2	10	4,1
	56	GM	Kadric Denis				2583	2	0	2	2	10	4,2
	60	GM	Kobalia Mikhail				2577	2	0	2	2	10	4,2
	66	GM	Livaic Leon				2569	2	0	2	2	10	4,3
	77	GM	Kozak Adam				2552	2	0	2	2	10	4,4
	83	GM	Stremavicius Titas				2544	2	0	2	2	10	4,4
	89	GM	Nasuta Grzegorz				2535	2	0	2	2	10	4,4
	90	GM	Stocek Jiri				2534	2	0	2	2	10	4,4
	91	GM	Dvirnyy Danyyil				2531	2	0	2	2	10	4,5
	98	GM	Yilmazyerli Mert				2525	2	0	2	2	10	4,4
	101	IM	Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis				2520	2	0	2	2	10	4,4
	106	GM	Brunello Sabino				2512	2	0	2	2	10	4,6
	116	IM	Gorshtein Ido				2498	2	0	2	2	10	4,5
	121	IM	Gharibyan Mamikon	U20			2491	2	0	2	2	10	4,5
30	53	GM	Sanal Vahap				2590	2	0	2	1,5	10	4,1

...484 players

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