Author:: Gu Xiaobing

　　The second rounds of both tournaments have ended. In the male games, Jakovenko, who used to be the No. 1 player in Russia, draw with Chinese player Wang Yue after the tough showdown. Radjabov from Azerbaijan draw successfully with Leko from Hungary with Sicilian Defense. Carlsen from Norway made today’s only victory and defeated Topalov, the champion of last year’s Nanjing Tournament. In this game, Carlsen opened with the Queen’s Pawn, Topalov defended by Kings Indian Defense in order to break Kaspalov and Carlsen’s preparation before hand. But Carlsen used Makagonov system and achieved priority. Under this depress, Topalov chose to give up a pawn. Unfortunately like Leko at yesterday, he also didn’t get enough compensation. In the following part of the game, Carlsen didn’t make any mistake and won the game fluently.

　　Today’s female games are different from those of yesterday, which four of them witnessed their winners. Only the games of Kovanova Vs Fierro and Sebag Vs Mkrtchyan are draws. For those four games, two of them are civil wars: Ju Wenjun (black) won Zhao Xue, and Xu Yuhua (white) defeated the only host winner of yesterday---Shen Yang. Zhu Chen, who failed to win yesterday under advantages, played white today and intelligently defeated Munguntuul. Dzagnidze from Georgia (black) defeated Yildiz from Turkey and achieved continuous two wins, which is the last finished game of today.

　　Tomorrow, both Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament and the Women’s FIDE Grand-Prix will hold the third round.