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Looking forward to this with So, Caruana and Nakamura in the mix. Commentary at Chess24 (Maurice Ashley, Jennifer Shahade & Yasser Seirawan) https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2017/1/1/1

After 18 moves, Robson (White) has about 6 minutes left and Nakamura more than 1 hour 23 mins!

What's the record for time discrepancies? I'm sure I remember some Karpov game where he ended up about three hours ahead. (Obviously Fischer clocks completely changed the game in this kind of area.)

JustinHorton wrote:What's the record for time discrepancies?

Maybe Jack can help

That exact thought had occurred to me

Robson down to his 30-second increments now in a worse ending at move 33; will he get more time if he survives to move 40?

So is about to beat Shabalov but Caruana may be in trouble.

Robson made the time control with 5 seconds to spare and 30 mins 30 secs was added to his time.
They have R and Bs of opp and g- h-pawns but Nakamura also has two c-pawns. and his R is on the 7th.

Onischuk-Naroditsky ended in a perpetual.

So did beat Shabalov and is now just 14.2 rating points behind Carlsen on the live ratings.

Shankland said he lost his advantage with 31 f3 as he overlooked 32...Bd5= but he wasn't sure he was ever winning.

Xiong is still trying against Akobian but it looks very drawish to me.
Nakamura looks to have realistic winning chances but he took his time about grabbing on g2. Now he's done it so he has passed pawns on either wing.

Two women's games are still running but it may be that Abrahamyan will be the only round 1 winner.

Caruana-Nakamura and Shankland-So tomorrow. And Xiong-Robson.

LATER: Now we see why Hikaru took so long. He has followed up with Rg2xBg3 to have B+3P v R instead of R, B, 2P v R and opp colour B.

Tim Harding wrote: Two women's games are still running but it may be that Abrahamyan will be the only round 1 winner.

I spoke too soon.
Zatonskih (with a 250 point rating advantage and several more minutes on the clock) thought for 3 minutes in a R+P v R+P position and came up with a help-mate. The reply was so obvious she Immediately resigned before the opponent could play it if chess24 is showing the right finish.

Carissa Yip also walked into a mate a few minutes later, so there were three round 1 winners.

Two really horrific blunders.

Hikaru and Wesley were the winners in the men's.

The big round 2 games Caruana-Nakamura and Shankland-So ended in draws and even though there is one game to finish no-one is going to be on 2/2. Nakamura, Akobian, So & Onischuk will share the lead on 1½/2. The women's second round is still going on the top board so its possible Sabina Foisor could get to 2/2 as she has a much better endgame vs Irina Krush.

Apparently, Maurice Ashley asked Caruana if it was important to make Nakamura suffer: "My intention is not to make my opponents suffer, it’s to beat them"

Chris Rice wrote:The big round 2 games Caruana-Nakamura and Shankland-So ended in draws and even though there is one game to finish no-one is going to be on 2/2. Nakamura, Akobian, So & Onischuk will share the lead on 1½/2. The women's second round is still going on the top board so its possible Sabina Foisor could get to 2/2 as she has a much better endgame vs Irina Krush.

The ending mentioned above swung dramatically with Krush winning to join Abrahamyan & Paikize on 1.5/2.

LawrenceCooper wrote:

Chris Rice wrote:The big round 2 games Caruana-Nakamura and Shankland-So ended in draws and even though there is one game to finish no-one is going to be on 2/2. Nakamura, Akobian, So & Onischuk will share the lead on 1½/2. The women's second round is still going on the top board so its possible Sabina Foisor could get to 2/2 as she has a much better endgame vs Irina Krush.

The ending mentioned above swung dramatically with Krush winning to join Abrahamyan & Paikize on 1.5/2.

Cheers Loz, went back and had a look. Oh dear oh dear. Felt really sorry for Foisor. It gets a mention on the report on the official site