Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals Day 2

Magnus Carlsen has extended his lead over Wesley So to six points after winning a crazy match against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in which White won all seven games. Wesley blamed poor time management as he lost to MVL in three games, while Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Levon Aronian won the first rapid game, lost the second and won the last to defeat Anish Giri and Vladislav Artemiev. Nakamura-Radjabov saw four draws featuring no chess content before Hikaru won in blitz after Teimour blundered in a drawn pawn endgame.

Another dramatic round in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour saw Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Levon Aronian and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave score three match points (their opponents got zero) for winning in rapid chess, while Carlsen-Mamedyarov and Nakamura-Radjabov were split 2:1 after going to blitz playoffs.

There are still seven rounds to go, with 21 points up for grabs for each player. In Round 3 MVL will be trying to make it three wins in three against Magnus, while Wesley faces the tough challenge of Vladislav Artemiev.

See also:

• Meltwater Champions Chess Tour website
• All the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals games with computer analysis on chess24
• $300k Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals set for lift-off!
• Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals: A look at the players
• Carlsen, Duda & Giri in Oslo as Tour Finals begin!
• MCCT Finals 1: Carlsen and So score max points