Congratulations Caruana you are playing spectacular chess at the moment!

Nice recovery from Magnus. He played the endgame perfectly, and made the most of Paco's accumulation of small inaccuracies. I think, despite his very uncharacteristic blunder yesterday in time trouble, that Carlsen is in good form and will win the tournament.

Karjakin seems to be in another place entirely. He didn't put up even a token fight in the first two rounds. Hopefully he gets it together soon.

Caruana has had things fall his way quite nicely so far. He has done a good job of capitalizing right away on his opponents' mistakes. His solidity will make him a contender for 1st in the later rounds.

Anand didn't really make much use of his double Whites in the first two rounds. Hopefully we see something from him soon! Aronian seemed pretty happy to end things peacefully and draw.

Caruana played of a devastating attack today, he didn't capitalize on mistakes of his opponent ! He was ICE MAN today, impressive player

Thank you Morley, as I see it this is a very good and well-balanced summary of the round.

Bravo Fabiano!

I wondered before the tournament about what to expect from Vishy. Actually it looks like him to become Drawing Queen again. Vishy was always a beast with the whites but for now he didnt show anything special and i´m afraid he wont attack with black either.

Expect Anand to smoke caruana, but he won't inhale.

I was expecting Aronian to defeat Anand. but Anand defended well and manged a draw

I hope Caruana keeps doing better and better and we get to see Nakamura shut his big mouth for a change. Let hime eat those cr@ppy words he said about Fabiano.

Go Caruana!

As much as fans complain about Anand the top players are still wary of him and seem content to draw with him.

Hooray for the Yank Caruana!

amazing to read the comments, seems that lots of people don't want to admit that Caruana is among the very best players now. " J'avance Masqué ! " Descartes

Can caruana crush the Draw machine Vishy?

I hope that Anand will return to win against the boy!

Chessvibes is much better. Chessbase is becoming the mouth piece of carlsen, notice they glorify his loss and say nearly nothing of aronian. And again his win, next to nothing about Caruana. Notice so many reports of chess base, check out the number of pics dedicated to others vs that of carlsen, and especially the downplaying of kramnik/aronian/etc victories. Especially aronian victories/when he climbs the rating like few months ago (then compare articles where magnus gains points). this why i no longer read Chessbase.

Yeah it's interesting to note how little credit is given to Caruana. He played the opeing much better and at the end Carlsen had a winning position, but just because Caruana played the exchange sacrifice to exploit Carlsen's time trouble, it was a very practical choice, in Carlsen's style I would say.

caruana is taking too much risk and getting lucky. Dare he take risk against Anand and he will go down

It's so fun how some people like to scold Carlsen, probably they are 2000-2400 players who will achieve nothing in chess ( and in life, frustrated people in their early 30 or with 40 years more already ) and is jealous of Carlsen's success inside and outside the board. People adore Carlsen because he represents greatness, that the only thing that matters is the win (always playing "draw" positions), being the best at something, and who hate him hate these qualities too.

How many wins does Anand need to put him back to 2800?

He will drop below 2750 in 2013 but yes he would still be able to retain the WCC

Hmmm...caught on the back foot with d4 then shows nothing at all with e4. Maybe now c4 for Vishy.. : )

This Caruana is really an amazing talent. He is the youngest in the Top 10 and look how many games he plays, simply amazing!

Topalov-like game by Caruana. Carlsen is playing very interesting chess, clearly playing to win as Black and selecting unconventional openings. I just noticed, half the field is named "CAR-".