Much improved performance by England as compared to 12.5/28 on Day 1. Many more players opened their accounts on Day 2. The day started with a quick photo session and another one is planned tomorrow with the complete squad [below, l-r, the team, Radha, Arushi, Ezra, Jacob, Shlok, Aditya, Thivyaa]

The most notable victories came from Stephen A J Whatley, Jake Holton and Thivyaa Rahulan, all of whom defeated opponents rated at least 200 points above them. Alex Golding, Daniel Gallagher, Radha Ratnesan, Sharon Daniel and Shlok Verma managed to share points with much more highly rated opponents.

There are many under-rated or zero-rated players in the tournament whose playing capacity is much more than their displayed grade, so well done to all our players who managed to get points today – all the losses were, again, after long fought games.

On the Day 3 live boards are FM Ravi Haria, in the U18 section, who is playing IM Bilel Bellahcene from France, and Jacob D Yoon in the U10 Open section