Morelia-Linares is just two rounds ahead, but so much has happened already. Two decisive games today: Aronian defeated Anand with Black in a Marshall and Ivanchuk beat Leko in a rare line of the Ruy Lopez. Topalov and Radjabov seemed to be blundering a pawn one after another, and then drew their Berlin Wall, Shirov-Carlsen in a solid Paulsen drew their game.

The game of the day was Anand vs Aronian, in which the Armenian got a very strong attack after sacrificing a second pawn in the Marshall. It looked like Anand blundered terribly on move 30, but in reality his position was already hopeless

Tournament standing after round 2,

Games with coments round 2