The second round games have been finished at the International chess festival Moscow Open 2010.

The main favorites of the tournament keep on winning the games. There was a meeting between two grand masters, originally from Yekaterinburg, at the first table of tournament “A”. Alexander Motylev (number one of the start list) defeated Mikhail Ulybin. Also Bu Xiangzhi (China) won the game against Eldar Gasanov
Meanwhile, there were lots of chess standoffs at the group “A”. For instance, Sergey Rublevsky ended the game in a draw with Pridorozhni Aleksei; Victor Bologan (Moldova) shared the score with the Ukrainian Yaroslav Zinchenko. The leader of Brazilian team Jovany Veskovi did not manage to overcome Alexander Shimanov, Ian Nepomnyashij ended the game in a draw with Ruslan Sherbakov.

After two round games 20 chess players have 100 percent result at this tournament.

A favorite of the women tournament Ju Wenjun (China) defeated Elena Semenova. In terms of muffin-choking news, Valentina Gunina (National team Russia) has been beaten by Shayesteh Ghader (Iran); Maria Manakova, the Moscow champion, failed and yielded the championship to Alena Suslova. The Chinese Zhao Xue were not able to overcome Maria Butuk.

In tournament “B” after 2 round games 67 participant keep on competing without any loss. This competition is the most numerous, that is why the candidates to the leadership are to be defined close to the finals.

In veteran’s chess tournament “Contemporaries the Victory” titled chess players tend to win the games. Double USSR champion Vitaly
Tseshkovsky, multiple Moscow champion Evgeny Vasiukov, a champion of Leningrad Vladimir Karasev won their games. Igor Zaitsev (a couch of ex-world champion Anatoly Karpov) has missed its first half point.

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