Little by little the initial nervousness of the participants of the RSSU Chess Cup, 2017 Moscow Open main tournaments is calming down. Sunday, January 29 the second round was held. Even now we can state that the number of adult participants is more than 1000 people, including almost 50 grandmasters.
152 players managed to start with two victories. Such famous grandmasters as Vladislav Artemiev (Kazan), Boris Grachev (Moscow), Denis Khismatullin (Neftekamsk), Anastasia Bodnaruk (St. Petersburg), Aleksandra Goryachkina (Salekhard), Alisa Galliamova (Kazan), Alina Kashlinskaya (Moscow), Evgeny Sveshnikov (Chelyabinsk), Evgeni Vasiukov, Elena Fatalibekova and Galina Strutinskaia (all from Moscow) are in the leading group.
The games of the third round will be played Monday, January 30.
We should mention that this year for the first time ever the online broadcast of the comments by grandmasters is organized within the frames of the Moscow Open. Alexander Kalinin and Nikolay Chadaev give their detailed comments on the struggle in the central games of the festival, participants of the tournament invited to the studio share their impressions of the games played live.