Foros fires hot up in round 2

Submitted by SonofPearl on Mon, 06/09/2008 at 12:33pm.

Shirov takes the sole lead

At the 12-player round robin tournament in Foros, Ukraine, the second round saw Alexei Shirov take the lead by adding to his first round victory against Van Wely with another win. This time his victim was Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia.

Round 2 also saw the popular Ukranian Vassily Ivanchuk bounce back from his first round loss to Magnus Carlsen by beating the Russian Evgeny Alekseev with the Catalan. In fact, it turned out to be a clean sweep for the home players as Sergey Karjakin and Andrei Volokitin also completed second round victories.

Magnus Carlsen had a much quieter round with the Black pieces, agreeing to a cessation of hostilities against the experienced Peter Svidler after 22 moves of a Queen's Indian defence.

The results in round 2:

Shirov, Alexei	- Jakovenko, Dmitry	1-0	46	E15	Queens Indian
Karjakin, Sergey	- Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	1-0	40	B48	Sicilian Paulsen
Volokitin, Andrei	- Onischuk, Alexander	1-0	31	E06	Catalan
Svidler, Peter	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	22	E15	Queens Indian
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Alekseev, Evgeny	1-0	53	E04	Catalan
Van Wely, Loek	- Eljanov, Pavel	½-½	22	D86	Gruenfeld Simagin

The standings after round 2:

1	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2740	*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	2
2	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2765	.	*	.	.	½	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	1½
3	Karjakin, Sergey	UKR	2732	.	.	*	.	.	.	.	½	1	.	.	.	1½
4	Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	2684	.	.	.	*	.	.	.	.	½	.	.	1	1½
5	Svidler, Peter	RUS	2746	.	½	.	.	*	½	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
6	Eljanov, Pavel	UKR	2687	.	.	.	.	½	*	.	.	.	½	.	.	1
7	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2740	.	0	.	.	.	.	*	1	.	.	.	.	1
8	Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	2711	.	.	½	.	.	.	0	*	.	.	.	.	½
9	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	ROU	2684	.	.	0	½	.	.	.	.	*	.	.	.	½
10	Van Wely, Loek	NED	2677	0	.	.	.	.	½	.	.	.	*	.	.	½
11	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	2711	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	*	½	½
12	Onischuk, Alexander	USA	2664	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	½	*	½