Round 2 Results- Correction!

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Last night i mentioned that Shirov as white beat Aronian (black) but it was a mistake! actually Aronian (white) beat Shirov (Black) - sorry for the mistake

Kamsky - Gelfand

Kamsky - Gelfand [B92]Candidate Elista, 06.06.2007

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.a4 Nc6 7.Be2 e5 8.Nb3 Be7 9.0-0 0-0 10.Be3 Be6 11.Bf3 Na5 12.Nxa5 Qxa5 13.Qd2 Rfc8 14.Rfd1 Kf8 15.Qc1 Rc4 16.Rd3 Rac8 17.Qd1 R4c6 18.Rd2 Rc4 19.Rd3 R4c6 20.h3 h6 21.Rd2 Rc4 22.Rd3 R4c6 23.Rd2 It looks like Gelfand decided that a draw with black should be fine where as Kamsky may be think he didn't have much from the position. 1/2-1/2

Aronian - Shirov

Alexey Shirov (2669) - Levon Aronian (2759) - Alexey Shirov (2699)[D20]

Candidate Elista 06.06.2007

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 e5 4.Nf3 exd4 5.Bxc4 Nc6 6.0-0 Be6 7.Bxe6 fxe6 8.Qb3 Qd7 9.Qxb7 Rb8 10.Qa6 Nf6 11.Nbd2 Bd6 12.b3 0-0 13.Bb2 Bf4 14.g3 Bh6 15.Ba3 Nxe4 16.Bxf8 Nxd2 17.Nxd2 Bxd2 18.Ba3 Qd5 19.Qc4 Qxc4 20.bxc4 Ne5 21.Rab1 Rd8 22.c5 Nc4 23.Bc1 d3 24.Rb7 c6 25.Bxd2 Nxd2 26.Rd1 Ne4 27.f3 Nc3 28.Rd2 Nxa2 29.Rb3 Nc1 30.Rb1 Ne2+ 31.Kf2 e5 32.Ra1 Rd5 33.Rxa7 Rxc5 34.Rxd3 Nd4 35.Rd2 h6 36.f4 Nb5 37.Ra8+ Kh7 38.f5 Nd4 39.g4 Rc3 [39...h5 Will give his king some air] 40.Rb2 h5? Why opening your king shelter? 41.Rbb8 Kh6 42.h4 1-0

Leko - Bareev

Bareev add his bad record against Leko, now from 1o games they play each other, Leko have beat him 5 times ( 5 draws) and Bareev have not win a single game!

Leko - Bareev [B17]Candidate Elista 06.06.2007

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 Bd6 8.Qe2 h6 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Qxe4 Qc7 11.0-0 b6 12.Qg4 Kf8 13.Re1 c5 14.c3 Bb7 15.Qh3 Rd8 16.Be4 Bxe4 17.Rxe4 Nf6 18.Re1 g6 19.b3 Kg7 20.dxc5 Bxc5 21.Bb2 Rd5 22.c4 Rh5 23.Qg3 Bd6 24.Ne5 Rd8 25.h3 Rf5 26.Re2 Bc5 27.Rf1 Kh7 28.Qh2 g5 29.Ng4 Bd6 30.g3 Nh5 31.Ne3 Bxg3 Bareev were very seriously short of time. 32.fxg3 Rxf1+? [32...Qxg3+ 33.Qxg3 Nxg3] 33.Nxf1 Rd1? [33...Rd3 Is better.] 1-0

Grischuk - Rublevsky

Grischuk made an interesting exchange sacrifice on move 18. Although the position offer dynamics balance for both side white position is more prefered side to play.

Grischuk - Rublevsky [B85]Candidate Elista 06.06.2007
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 d6 7.0-0 Nf6 8.Be3 Bd7 9.a4 Be7 10.f4 Nxd4 11.Qxd4 Bc6 12.b4 0-0 13.b5 Be8 14.e5 Qc7 15.b6 Qc6 16.Bf3 d5 17.Rae1 Nd7 18.Nxd5 exd5 19.Bxd5 Qc5 20.e6 Qxd4 21.Bxd4 Nf6 22.Bb3 Rd8 23.Bxf6 Bc5+ 24.Kh1 gxf6 25.e7 Bxe7 26.Rxe7 Bc6 27.Rc7 Rd2 28.Re1 Rf2 29.h3 Rxf4 30.Ree7 Rf1+ 31.Kh2 Rf2 32.Rxc6 bxc6 33.Rxf7 Rf4 34.c3 1-0

* It looks like my statistic yesterday -http://hairulovchessmaniacs.blogspot.com/2007/06/round-2-highlights.html was quite close with today's result accept that Shirov manage to beat Aronian and level their personal encounter ( corrections- Aronian beat Shirov so my statistic is almost perfect!) .