It seems Anand relaxed after his great previous win. Am I wrong, or Anand played a terrible blunder on move 12. Ng5?? Losing at least a pawn like sometimes I do playing 2min/4sec blitz over Internet...?

to raj.

The live games are available here http://linares09.soloajedrez.com

The official web site works verry well and even you can follow the live commentary (in spanish) by Garcia and Fredel (in english).

where is the linares games available live? the official website doesn't seem to load the games at all.

So now Aronian is leading the tournament.

Should we now say he is winning the event (as someone said about Anand after round 1) or would that be a trifle premature after only 2 rounds ?

Sorry, but what a mistaken impression! There are thousands of wins like that, in the sense you're using! As you speak, it looks like Kasparov invented something here, which is completely not the case (an error by a few centuries, at least)!
Now, it's always wonderful to enjoy such a nice winning, and yes, of course Vishy is "a monster".

Kamarak, I think you mean rook+knight (Kasparov) vs. rook (Polgar), Dos Hermanas 1996? Anyway, I think the comparison with such a theoretically drawn ending (but the other player has to prove it over the board) is a bit odd.

Among the presently active players, I would say Kramnik (on his better days) is best known for converting small endgame edges - though usually a different type of endgame, because mostly queens were exchanged earlier during the game.

Impressive victory by Anand, no doubt about it ... but let's not exaggerate too much.

Looks like Anand is heading for an impressive loss against Aronian however. Or is a bishop worth 5 pawns ?

look at levon!!!!!don't compare anand with kasparov,it doesn't worth!

Anand is losing : he is 3 paws down (K+B) vs (B+B) ..

anand played like a monster to win with a very small edge. i have only ever seen kasparov do such a thing before when he beat judit polgar (2730) with a rook him having a roo and she having a knight

impressive victory of Anand!

I agree with kamaraks.
When wathcing the game, I have the same impression: only Kasparov was able to win in such manner.

Astonishing the highly positional and the precision style that Anand used to demonstrate the severe weakness provided by that variation of the Sicilian regarding the bad bishop and the holes in e4 and d5. Black pieces watched horrified for 60 moves the amstesyless surgery which ended with the death of his queen and monarch...

Anand is wining this event

@ Mahesh thanks, corrected!

Some mistake has been given in the pairings :
Anand-Wang-Ye appears in three?? rounds - Feb. 21, Feb. 22 and March 3 whereas there is only one Anand-Dominiguez paring slated for March 2.

That was pretty magical to watch.

Another remarkable show of the world champion´s class.