Yesterday's draws was not an indication of how things would go this time around. Three of the five games finished with a winner, and the fourth real game was also interesting.
Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand were headed for a draw when things started to go badly wrong for the former champion. A series of tactical imprecisions, each relatively minor in its own right, resulted in a lost rook ending that Carlsen would have had no trouble converting.
Another former Carlsen opponent from a world championship match, Sergey Karjakin, also won. He was in big trouble against Anish Giri early on, and would have lost quickly and possibly spectacularly had Giri handled his attack properly. Instead, he first played too slowly, and then played rashly, and suffered a painful defeat as a consequence. (He also lost a chance to break the 2800 barrier again.)
Ding Liren was winning against Alexander Grischuk, then let Grischuk off the hook, and then won the game a second time. He is in sniffing distance of the #2 spot in the world rankings.
I'm not sure if Veselin Topalov was ever winning against David Navara, but he had a significant advantage for most of the game and forced Navara to sweat it out for a long time.
Finally, the "battle" between Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov was as genuine as a politician's apology. They're good friends, players of the host country and were good friends of the player being celebrated by the tournament. In an event where not that much is at stake they can be counted on to split the point. The game went 41 moves, yes, and ended while everyone else was still wiping the sleep from their eyes.
The tournament website is here, the games (with my comments to parts of Carlsen-Anand and Giri-Karjakin) are here, and these are the pairings for round 3: