World Blitz Championship Day2
The second day of the World Blitz Championship in Moscow saw Magnus Carlsen move narrowly ahead of Vishy Anand to take the lead on 21 out of a possible 28 points.
Anand lies just a single point back on 20/28 and Sergei Karjakin had a strong day to move up to third place with 18.5/28.
Anatoly Karpov slipped to ninth place, but is still well placed in this very strong field.
The pgn scores of all the games played so far can be found at this link from the official site (bear in mind that records of blitz games can sometimes be inaccurate).
Detailed results from each round can be found here, together with full tournament tables. A few of the games from day 2 can be found below.
The standings after 28 rounds:
| 1 | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 21 |
| 2 | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 20 |
| 3 | Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 18.5 |
| 4 | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 16.5 |
| 5 | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 16.5 |
| 6 | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 16 |
| 7 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 16 |
| 8 | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 14.5 |
| 9 | Karpov, Anatoly | RUS | 14 |
| 10 | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 13.5 |
| 11 | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 13.5 |
| 12 | Leko, Peter | HUN | 13 |
| 13 | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 12.5 |
| 14 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 12 |
| 15 | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 12 |
| 16 | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 12 |
| 17 | Bareev, Evgeny | RUS | 12 |
| 18 | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 11.5 |
| 19 | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 11.5 |
| 20 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | 11 |
| 21 | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 11 |
| 22 | Tkachiev, Vladislav | FRA | 9.5 |
