Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Congress 2011 - Watch how Korchnoi beats Caruana

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None other than the legendary Viktor Korchnoi all set to beat

his young Italian opponent Fabiano Caruana.

Hi everyone,

It's just Round 2 at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Congress 2011 and 22 players are with a perfect score. Michael Adams is just a rank below with 1.5 points. You can access the official website here. The link to the live commentary is here.

Standings after Round 2

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1
1	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2764	2.0	0
	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	ESP	2698	2.0	0
	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2658	2.0	0
	GM	Fridman Daniel	GER	2655	2.0	0
	GM	Roiz Michael	ISR	2649	2.0	0
	GM	Sandipan Chanda	IND	2641	2.0	0
	GM	Berg Emanuel	SWE	2627	2.0	0
	GM	Akobian Varuzhan	USA	2618	2.0	0
	GM	Kotronias Vasilios	GRE	2599	2.0	0
	GM	Gopal Geetha Narayanan	IND	2597	2.0	0
	GM	Erdos Viktor	HUN	2593	2.0	0
	GM	Felgaer Ruben	ARG	2585	2.0	0
	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2577	2.0	0
	GM	Buhmann Rainer	GER	2572	2.0	0
	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	RUS	2570	2.0	0
	IM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	RUS	2552	2.0	0
	GM	Korchnoi Viktor	SUI	2544	2.0	0
	GM	Rapport Richard	HUN	2531	2.0	0
	GM	Sengupta Deep	IND	2530	2.0	0
	GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	LTU	2526	2.0	0
	GM	Zhu Chen	QAT	2495	2.0	0
	FM	Weber Tom	LUX	2310	2.0	0

And the talented Pia Cramling on

her way to losing to the creative Nigel Short.

Here is the most-talked about game of the day. Enjoy.




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