Doha: World no. 2 Anish Giri and eight others have a perfect score at the end of Round 2 of the Qatar Masters Chess tournament while former world champion Vladimir Kramnik chacnes suffered a jolt as he drew with Piorun Kacper of Poland.
Seven other Grandmaster’s along with Giri have won both their matches along with one International Master at the Aspire Dome.
The 21-year-old Saint Petersburg-born Dutch star defeated Grandelius Nils to keep his all-win record intact going into the third round.
Others with a perfect all-win score against their names, after two rounds, in the nine round championship are: So Wesley (USA), Yu Yangyi (China), Wojtaszek Radoslaw (Poland), Yuffa Daniil (Russia), Li Chao B (China), Howell David W L (England), Swiercz Dariusz (Poland) and Sethuraman SP (India).
On Sunday, reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen’s suffered a setback as he was held to a draw by Nino Batsiashvili of Georgia but won yesterday.
Carlsen is one of the 148 players who are in Doha for the ten-day tournament which ends on December 29.
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