Baku Grand Prix round 2 early results: Grischuk-Karjakin 1/2

Alexander Grischuk of Russia and Sergei Karjakin of Ukraine drew their match after only 19 move of the Queens Gambit/Semi-Slav/Botvinnick Variation. Grischuk, playing white, commit an early knight sacrife to break black's king side defenses and manage to bring his rook into Karjakin's seventh rank but white's aggressive and dominant occupation of the open h file supported by his Queen and clear space advantage for his pieces only ends to threefold repetition. Karjakin showing that he is undeterred from this early assault, spent only 7 minutes the entire match while Grischuk took almost an hour.

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