Round 2 top pairings:
| Table | White | Flags | Score | Fed. | Rating | Black | Flags | Score | Fed. | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Landa, Konstantin | 1.0 | RUS | 2626 | GM Naiditsch, Arkadij | 1.0 | GER | 2693 | |||
| 2 | GM Lysyj, Igor | 1.0 | RUS | 2620 | GM Vitiugov, Nikita | 1.0 | RUS | 2687 | |||
| 3 | GM Zhou, Jianchao | 1.0 | CHN | 2612 | GM Moiseenko, Alexander | 1.0 | UKR | 2676 | |||
| 4 | GM Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan | 1.0 | IRI | 2604 | GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny | 1.0 | RUS | 2664 | |||
| 5 | GM Onischuk, Alexander | 1.0 | USA | 2659 | GM Kurnosov, Igor | 1.0 | RUS | 2602 | |||
| 6 | GM Vaganian, Rafael A | 1.0 | ARM | 2596 | GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej | 1.0 | BLR | 2636 | |||
| 7 | GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim | 1.0 | RUS | 2636 | GM Ehlvest, Jaan | 1.0 | USA | 2595 | |||
| 8 | IM Ponkratov, Pavel | 1.0 | RUS | 2557 | GM So, Wesley | 1.0 | PHI | 2627 | |||
| 9 | GM Volkov, Sergey | 1.0 | RUS | 2627 | GM Smirnov, Pavel | 1.0 | RUS | 2579 | |||
| 10 | GM Bacrot, Etienne | 0.5 | FRA | 2722 | GM Shomoev, Anton | 1.0 | RUS | 2567 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Go Wesley!
Somebody here missed Naiditsch at the german Championship.
Well, here we are again, old lovely!
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