The second games of the Second Round of the World Cup were played on September 14 in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Three players - Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) - whitewashed their opponents. It is worth mentioning that the Frenchmen have not conceded to his rivals even a half-point so far.
Many matches ended with a popular 1.5-0.5 score. In arguably the most sensational one, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Germany) made a draw from the position of strength with Hikaru Nakamura (USA) and advanced to the third round.
Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) won his match against his compatriot Alexandr Predke (at some point Ian was three pawns down, snatched the victory), Dmitry Andreikin (Russia) defeated Rinat Jumabayev (Kazakhstan), Levon Aronian (Armenia) was stronger than Parham Maghsoodloo (Iran), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) beat Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan), Xu Xiangyu (China) got the better of Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia), Wesley So (USA) bested Anton Demchenko (Russia), Pentala Harikrishna (India) passed though Vladimir Fedoseev (Russia), Wang Hao (China) defeated Maxim Rodshtein (Israel), Vladislav Artemiev (Russia) won against Ivan Cheparinov (Georgia), Evgeny Tomashevsky (Russia) knocked out Chitambaram Aravindth (India), Anton Korobov (Ukraine) lost to Le Quang Liem (Vietnam), Aleksandr Rakhmanov (Russia) gave way to Santosh Vidit (India), and Daniil Dubov (Russia) had to capitulate in a clash with Alireza Firouzja (Iran).
Quite a few matches will once again be decided on tie-breaks.
Only two players managed to come back after losing the first game: Eltaj Safarli defeated Nihal Sarin thanks to a terrible blunder from his opponent (Nihal just left his bishop unprotected), whereas Wei Yi from China took revenge with black pieces against the Spaniard David Anton Guijarro .
The following matches moved on to tie-breaks after two draws: Ding Liren -Movsesian, Christiansen - Alekseenko, Svidler - Esipenko, Jakovenko - Jones, Giri -Najer, Tabatabaei - Xiong, McShane –Y uffa, Dominguez - Abasov, Grischuk - Bok, Sjugirov - Radjabov, Gelfand - Matlakov, Adhiban - Yu Yangyi, and Vitiugov - Huschenbeth.
The tie-breaks will be played on September 15.
Official website: https://khantymansiysk2019.fide.com/en/
General partner – Gazpromneft-Khantos LCC.
Official airline – Utair.
Official partners of the competition: OJSC Rostelecom, Ugra Chess Academy, Russian Chess Federation, AB InBev Efes and PJSC Rosneft.
FIDE official partner – JSCo "RZD".
General media partner – News Agency TASS.
Media partners – Match TV, World of Chess social network, OTRC "Ugra", Ugra-news.ru News of Ugra regional newspaper, AIF-Ugra newspaper.
