Written and annotated by GM Alejandro Ramirez.
The first decisive game of the day was the match between Alexander Grischuk and Vishy Anand. The Russian played the “correct bishop opening”, as he calls it, and obtained a slight edge after Anand’s inaccurate, and somewhat strange, development. Grischuk was in severe time trouble, but had the positional pressure. Anand tried to complicate the game but ended up making mistakes while playing quickly. Grischuk punished the mistakes accurately and won the game.