The #iomchess Round 2 pairings are out, with some fascinating battles ahead... plus Kramnik, So & Nakamura down on the probably non-live boards 33-35!

#IOMchess International is getting more interesting.

Round 6 of #IOMchess, the results on the top boards:
1. Caruana (4) 1-0 Fedoseev (4)
2. Maghsoodloo (4) ½-½ Grischuk (4)
3. Wang (4) 1-0 McShane (4)
4. Carlsen (3½) 1-0 Shirov (4)

There is a rest day tomorrow, round 7 will be played on October 17.

The #iomchess r7 pairings are out and we'll see these top clashes on Thursday:

Grischuk (4½) vs. Caruana (5)
Aronian (4½) vs. Wang Hao (5)
Alekseenko (4½) vs. Carlsen (4½)
Anton (4½) vs. Vitiugov (4½)
Yu Yangyi (4) vs. Maghsoodloo (4½)

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/fide-grand-swiss-2019/7/1/1

Tournament leader and world #2 Fabiano Caruana analyzes his fantastic win over Russian star Vladimir Fedoseev in round six.

Caruana is the sole leader with 5/6.

Overnight joint leader, Parham Maghsoodloo also joins in and shares his inputs.
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Magnus Carlsen now seems to be on a roll, but at the halfway stage of #IOMChess it's Fabiano Caruana and Wang Hao who are in the lead on 5/6!

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/grand-swiss-6-stars-flex-their-muscles

Levon Aronian beats Wang Hao to join Fabiano Caruana in the #IOMChess lead! They'll play in tomorrow's Round 8

Top pairings round 8:

Caruana-Aronian
Wang Hao-Carlsen
Anton-Grischuk
Maghsoodloo-Vitiugov
So-Alekseenko
Anand-Fedoseev
Shirov-Yu Yangyi

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http://chess-results.com/tnr478041.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=8&flag=30

FIDE http://Chess.com Grand Swiss: Anton Joins Aronian, Caruana

With a surprisingly quick and crushing win vs Alexander Grischuk, Spanish grandmaster David Anton joined Levon Aronian and Fabiano Caruana in the lead at #iomchess. Report:

Top board results at #IOMchess:

It's Carlsen-Caruana tomorrow at #IOMchess!

Top boards for round 9:

Round 9 of the #IOMchess saw one more player joining the leaders – Hikaru Nakamura. The American had a slow start with 4 draws and 1 win, but then picked up speed and is now in the leading pack together with Aronian, Caruana, and Anton.

https://www.fide.com/news/167

#IOMchess Round 9:
1. (6) Aronian ½-½ Anton (6)
2. (5½) Carlsen ½-½ Caruana (6)
3. (5½) Alekseenko ½-½ Anand (5½)
4. (5½) Maghsoodloo ½-½ Karjakin (5½)
5. (5½) Kovalev 0-1 Nakamura (5½)
6. (5½) Vitiugov ½-½ Wang (5½)
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Four leaders with 6,5: Aronian, Anton, Caruana, Nakamura.

Pairings round 10 #iomchess:

#IOMchess Round 10, top:
1. (6½) Caruana 1-0 Anton (6½)
2. (6½) Nakamura ½-½ Aronian (6½)
3. (6) Carlsen 1-0 Matlakov (6)
4. (6) Anand 0-1 Wang (6)
5. (6) Karjakin 0-1 Alekseenko (6)
6. (6) Howell 1-0 Grischuk (6)
7. (6) Vitiugov 1-0 Rakhmanov (6)
8. (5½) Le 1-0 Maghsoodloo (6)

With just 1 round to go, Fabiano Caruana (2812) is the leader of #IOMchess with 7½ points.

There are 7 players on 7/10:
Wang Hao (2726)
Alekseenko (2674)
Carlsen (2876)
Aronian (2758)
Vitiugov (2732)
Nakamura (2745)
Howell (2694)

There will be a great fight tomorrow!

The proud holders of GM norms for their #IOMchess performance (from L to R):
Jonas Buhl Bjerre (15-year-old)
Raunak Sadhwani (13-year-old)
Vincent Keymer (14-year-old)
Dinara Saduakassova
Soumya Swaminathan

Congratulations! 👏👏👏

The top women’s prize of #IOMChess ($10,000) was shared by Harika Dronavalli 🇮🇳 and Dinara Saduakassova 🇰🇿 who both scored 5½ points, with the Indian player receiving the trophy on a better tie-break.