In the second round of the Groningen Chess Festival, three grandmasters weren’t able to win. Dimitri Reinderman, Titas Stremavicius and Michal Krasenkow couldn’t beat Nagarkatte Vedant (India), Onno Elgersma and Zyon Kollen, respectively. On the top board, Valery Kazakouski was very fortunate against his compatriot Pijus Stremavicius, who blundered into a mate from a better position. Thomas Beerdsen and Vladislav Nevednichy both won their games. The most spectacular games of today were those of Evgeny Romanov, who defeated Sanket Chakravarty in a nerve-racking tussle, and fifteen-year-old Arthur de Winter, who played futuristic chess to beat the Frisian master Migchiel de Jong. Both winners had Black.

After two rounds, the leaders with a full hundred percent score are Kazakouski, Romanov, Nevednichy, De Winter, Kobo, Bulmaga, Beerdsen, Dengla Aarav from India and Nikola Kanov fromBulgaria.