22 October 2018

Rating Favourites Keep Losing Points at Chess.Com Isle of Man International

Two rounds played.

Photo: John Saunders
Photo: John Saunders

Second round of the Chess.Com Isle of Man International was played in Douglas on October 21. 

Rating favourites keep suffer losses in the Masters tournament. Thus, Viswanathan Anand, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Vladislav Artemiev, Pavel Eljanov, Peter Leko, Baskaran Adhiban, Vladislav Kovalev, and Nigel Short drew their games against lower rated opponents. The Russian Alina Kashlinskaya made a second draw with a top seed: this time she was playing against Vladimir Kramnik.

19 chess players, including the Russian Pavel Tregubov, have scored 2 points.



Round 3 pairings

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