Grandmaster Gata Kamsky of the United States has forged ahead in his match against GM Topalov in the FIDE Candidates matches! Kamsky, playing the black pieces in this game, essayed the risky Grunfeld Defense and defeated Topalov in 31 moves! The games in the remaining three matches were all drawn. This means that the following standings exist in these matches after 2 games:
Nat. | Rtg | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | Rpd1 | Rpd2 | Rpd3 | Rpd4 | Tot. | Perf | |
| Levon Aronian | ARM | 2808 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 | |||||||
| Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2747 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 |
Nat. | Rtg | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | Rpd1 | Rpd2 | Rpd3 | Rpd4 | Tot. | Perf | |
| Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2785 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 | |||||||
| Teimour Radjabov | AZE | 2744 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 |
Nat. | Rtg | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | Rpd1 | Rpd2 | Rpd3 | Rpd4 | Tot. | Perf | |
| Veselin Topalov | BUL | 2775 | ½ | 0 | 0.5 | |||||||
| Gata Kamsky | USA | 2732 | ½ | 1 | 1.5 |
Nat. | Rtg | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | Rpd1 | Rpd2 | Rpd3 | Rpd4 | Tot. | Perf | |
| Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2733 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 | |||||||
| Shak. Mamedyarov | AZE | 2772 | ½ | ½ | 1.0 |
Here are the moves from all of the games played in round 2 today:
Game 3 of all the matches will be played tommorrow. Update: I have analyzed the second game victory by Kamsky and posted this analysis to my blog using the program Chessviewer Deluxe.This analysis is found in the next blog post of my blog, I hope you enjoy playing through this analysis! I allowed the strong chess program Hiarcs 13.2 MP to analyze this game for 90 minutes then I have added my own comments to this analysis. Hiarcs 13.2 has found exactly where Topalov lost this game.
