Former world champion Viswanathan Anand struggled with his form in the first round of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2019 as he suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Grandmaster Evgeny Najer of Russia.
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It was a highly tactical game in which Najer launched an impressive attack against Anand’s king which was successful since black was unable to find a difficult saving resource.
IM Raunak Sadhwani also caused an upset by beating GM Sanan Sjugirov of Azerbaijan.
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In an India vs India clash on board 17,GM Vidit Gujrathi beat GM Sethuraman S.P with the white pieces while GM Adhiban B beat chinese player Wu Li in an impressive sacrificial game.
The only other loss for an Indian player came in the form of GM Prithu Gupta’s defeat against GM Vladimir Fedoseev of Russia.
All the remaining games by the Indian Players were drawn.
Pairings
Round 2 on 2019/10/11 at 15:00
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
| 1 | 58 | GM | Sarana Alexey | 2655 | 1 | 1 | GM | Carlsen Magnus | 2876 | 1 | |||
| 2 | 2 | GM | Caruana Fabiano | 2812 | 1 | 1 | GM | Sevian Samuel | 2654 | 61 | |||
| 3 | 60 | GM | Oparin Grigoriy | 2654 | 1 | 1 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2763 | 5 | |||
| 4 | 62 | GM | Motylev Alexander | 2651 | 1 | 1 | GM | Artemiev Vladislav | 2746 | 11 | |||
| 5 | 63 | GM | Melkumyan Hrant | 2650 | 1 | 1 | GM | Vitiugov Nikita | 2732 | 13 | |||
| 6 | 65 | GM | Mamedov Rauf | 2645 | 1 | 1 | GM | Wang Hao | 2726 | 15 | |||
| 7 | 16 | GM | Bu Xiangzhi | 2721 | 1 | 1 | GM | Riazantsev Alexander | 2645 | 67 | |||
| 8 | 70 | GM | Bluebaum Matthias | 2643 | 1 | 1 | GM | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi | 2718 | 17 | |||
| 9 | 20 | GM | Xiong Jeffery | 2708 | 1 | 1 | GM | Adhiban B. | 2639 | 73 | |||
| 10 | 76 | GM | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | 2638 | 1 | 1 | GM | Anton Guijarro David | 2674 | 39 | |||
| 11 | 77 | GM | Adly Ahmed | 2636 | 1 | 1 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | 2670 | 41 | |||
| 12 | 81 | GM | Najer Evgeniy | 2635 | 1 | 1 | GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | 2664 | 47 | |||
| 13 | 98 | GM | L’ami Erwin | 2619 | 1 | 1 | GM | Shirov Alexei | 2664 | 49 | |||
| 14 | 101 | GM | Jobava Baadur | 2617 | 1 | 1 | GM | Dreev Aleksey | 2662 | 51 | |||
| 15 | 106 | GM | Abdusattorov Nodirbek | 2608 | 1 | 1 | GM | Demchenko Anton | 2655 | 57 | |||
| 16 | 6 | GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2760 | ½ | 1 | IM | Sadhwani Raunak | 2479 | 129 | |||
| 17 | 84 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | 2630 | ½ | ½ | GM | So Wesley | 2767 | 3 | |||
| 18 | 86 | GM | Alekseev Evgeny | 2629 | ½ | ½ | GM | Grischuk Alexander | 2759 | 7 | |||
| 19 | 8 | GM | Aronian Levon | 2758 | ½ | ½ | GM | Abasov Nijat | 2632 | 83 | |||
| 20 | 96 | GM | Van Foreest Jorden | 2621 | ½ | ½ | GM | Harikrishna Pentala | 2748 | 9 |
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