Top boards round 2 results:
| Round 2 on 2009/03/07 at 15.00 | |||||||||||
| Bo. | SNo. | Name | IRtg | Pts | Res. | Pts | Name | IRtg | SNo. | ||
| 1 | 2 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2700 | 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 | GM | Saric Ivan | 2566 | 93 |
| 2 | 94 | GM | Grigoriants Sergey | 2565 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | 2693 | 3 |
| 3 | 95 | GM | Andriasian Zaven | 2564 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Dreev Alexey | 2688 | 5 |
| 4 | 6 | GM | Bologan Viktor | 2687 | 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 | GM | Safarli Eltaj | 2564 | 97 |
| 5 | 96 | GM | Iljushin Alexei | 2564 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Vitiugov Nikita | 2687 | 7 |
| 6 | 8 | GM | Tiviakov Sergei | 2685 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Popov Valerij | 2561 | 99 |
| 7 | 98 | GM | Sjugirov Sanan | 2562 | 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | 2679 | 9 |
| 8 | 10 | GM | Motylev Alexander | 2676 | 1 | 0 – 1 | 1 | GM | Nijboer Friso | 2559 | 101 |
| 9 | 100 | GM | Neverov Valeriy | 2560 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | 2675 | 11 |
| 10 | 102 | GM | Jovanovic Zoran | 2558 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Timofeev Artyom | 2671 | 13 |
| 11 | 14 | GM | Volokitin Andrei | 2671 | 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 | GM | Ruck Robert | 2558 | 103 |
| 12 | 104 | GM | Maletin Pavel | 2557 | 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 | GM | Jobava Baadur | 2669 | 15 |
| 13 | 105 | GM | Minasian Artashes | 2557 | 1 | 0 – 1 | 1 | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | 2664 | 17 |
| 14 | 106 | GM | Milanovic Danilo | 2552 | 1 | 0 – 1 | 1 | GM | Sokolov Ivan | 2657 | 19 |
| 15 | 20 | GM | Inarkiev Ernesto | 2656 | 1 | 1 – 0 | 1 | GM | Brkic Ante | 2550 | 107 |
| 16 | 22 | GM | Savchenko Boris | 2654 | 1 | 0 – 1 | 1 | GM | Kovacevic Aleksandar | 2543 | 111 |
| 17 | 108 | GM | Lenic Luka | 2547 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Postny Evgeny | 2652 | 23 |
| 18 | 24 | GM | Berkes Ferenc | 2651 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Maslak Konstantin | 2541 | 113 |
| 19 | 110 | GM | Evdokimov Alexander A | 2545 | 1 | 0 – 1 | 1 | GM | Predojevic Borki | 2650 | 25 |
| 20 | 112 | GM | Cvitan Ognjen | 2542 | 1 | ½ – ½ | 1 | GM | Caruana Fabiano | 2646 | 29 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I’m rooting for Alex Onischuk.
Dummy,
Onischuk is American, and America is not in Europe.
Mu favourite is Nakamura!
Susan, interesting tactic in the game Banikas-Akopian 1-0 from the 3rd round, (move 29).