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Norway Chess 2016 - Round 2

GM Ronen Har-Zvi video recap

Standings

Pos.	Points	Player	Rating
1-3	1.5	Magnus Carlsen	2851
		Vladimir Kramnik	2801
		Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2788
4-7	1.0	Anish Giri	2790
		Levon Aronian	2784
		Veselin Topalov	2754
		Li Chao	2755
8-10	0.5	Pavel Eljanov	2765
		Pentala Harikrishna	2763
		Nils Grandelius	2649

After a great start, with three decisive results in round 1, today only one game was decisive. But what a game! The strong Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won his encounter with Anish Giri of the Netherlands, swapping places with him in the standings. Maxime now sports a monstrous rating in the live list: 2792.5! Giri lost a game after an impressive streak without a single defeat since November 2015. The game was really exciting; a Sicilian Najdorf that MVL mastered in an almost old-fashioned way, with tactics and brilliant play all over the board.

Carlsen drew Topalov comfortably with black, and is now 37 games straight without a loss.

Grandelius and Aronian split the point after and interesting Berlin defense.
Kramnik tried to complicate his game against Li Chao, but the strong Chinese GM was a able to hold the draw.

Now the trio in the lead is Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Tomorrow Round 3 at 10AM EDT - 16 CEST. Live commentary in ICC with IM Christof Sielecki and GM Lars Bo Hansen.

Today's winner of the GTR contest is Fork. Well done!