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1st FIDE Grand Prix 2022 - Round 2

Lots of action today in Berlin!
 

 Pool A 1 2 3 4 PTS
Grischuk aa   1/2 1/2 1.0
Nakamura   aa 1 1/2 1.5
Esipenko 1/2 0 aa   0.5
Bacrot 1/2 1/2   aa 1.0

Nakamura won a great game against the young Russian GM Andrey Esipenko. Bacrot had the upper hand in his games versus Grischuk, but the Frenchman could not find a way to concretize his advantage and had to settle for a draw. Now in Pool A Nakamura leads with 1.5 points.
 

 

 Pool B 1 2 3 4 PTS
Wojtaszek aa   1 1/2 1.5
Fedoseev   aa 0 1 1.0
Rapport 0 1 aa   1.0
Oparin 1/2 0   aa 0.5

In Pool B Wojtaszek, who had won yesterday, was on the brink of scoring two out of two, but Oparin defended strenuously, and the game ended in a draw. 
Rapport bounced back after losing yesterday's game and defeated Fedoseev in an interesting battle.

 

 Pool C 1 2 3 4 PTS
Aronian aa 1/2   1 1.5
Dubov 1/2 aa 1/2   1.0
Keymer   1/2 aa 1/2 1.0
Gujrathi 0   1/2 aa 0.5


In Pool C the four players drew their game, leaving the standings unchanged.

 Pool D 1 2 3 4 PTS
So aa 1/2 1/2   1.0
Dominguez 1/2 aa   1 1.5
Harikrishna 1/2   aa 1/2 1.0
Shirov   0 1/2 aa 0.5


In pool D Harikrishna and So drew, and Shirov lost to Dominguez.

 

Tomorrow Round 3, at 9 AM EST - 15:00 Berlin (CET) - 14:00 UTC

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