St. Louis Rapid & Blitz, Day 2: Caruana Continues to Lead
It's surprising that Fabiano Caruana continues to lead by a full point (or two points, on the 2-1-0 scoring for the rapid games) after drawing three games today, but that's how it all shook out. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave closed to within half a point thanks to a win over Alexander Grischuk in round 4, but a bad loss to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with White in round 6 pushed him back again.
The games are all here, with at least a terse comment for every game and substantial annotations for the most of them. And here are the standings, given with 2-1-0 scoring:
1. Caruana 9/12
2-5. Mamedyarov, Nakamura, Vachier-Lagrave, Karjakin 7
6. Dominguez 6
7. Aronian 5
8-10. So, Anand, Grischuk 4
The rapid portion concludes tomorrow, followed by two days of blitz with the same players. (Day 1 will be a round robin, and day 2 will be a second round robin with all the colors reversed.)
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