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Round Three, Day Two
A near total lack of heroics today, not surprising
as the upper hand was, by and large, attached
to the muscular arm of the match favorites.
The exception to this rule also produced the round's
only comeback, as Svidler rode the Ruy Lopez to
fairly methodical victory over an aggressive
Peng. Otherwise, the guys who were ahead stayed
ahead, and that was that. These are, after all,
two-game matches so there is no time to hesitate,
one chance or it is over.
Getting ahead
There wasn't even that much bloodshed among those
players who weren't ahead, and the nervous
fun of tiebreak day looms for most of them.
Highly favored Anand decided he wanted to skip
the extra work, and notched up a win over Lputian,
who played, if anything, strangely optimistically
as black.
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