Magnus Carlsen beat Wesley So 2.5:0.5 and Daniil Dubov scored a 3:0 clean sweep against Sergey Karjakin as the second day of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge was over fast. Dubov’s victory was extremely convincing, while Magnus admitted he’d ridden his luck in the second game, saying of the opening, “Peter [Svidler] would have seriously considered resignation at this point!” Wesley needed to win on demand in the third game but decided to take a draw by repetition after just 18 moves.
In terms of games, Day 2 of the quarterfinals couldn’t have ended faster:
