Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) beats Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in second round of MTel Masters 2008. The game was played in French opening, Steinitz-Boleslavsky variant and took 43 moves.
The other two games in this round were drown:
Bu Xiangzhi and Tejmour Radjabov sign a completely King vs. King draw in just a 45-moves Anglo-Indian English opening. They both lost their first round games yesterday.
Levon Aronian and Ivan Cheparinov ended their Slav Defence game in a 46-moves game.
After this round Ukrainian GM Ivanchuk take the sole lead with 2/2 points.

Round 2 Standings:

Rank	Name	IRtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pts	vict	Res.	SB.
1	Ivanchuk Vassily	2740	UKR	* *		1	1			2,0	2	0,0	1,50
2	Cheparinov Ivan	2695	BUL		* *			1	Ѕ	1,5	1	0,0	0,75
3	Topalov Veselin	2767	BUL	0		* *			1	1,0	1	0,0	0,50
4	Radjabov Teimour	2751	AZE	0			* *	Ѕ		0,5	0	0,5	0,25
5	Bu Xiangzhi	2708	CHN		0		Ѕ	* *		0,5	0	0,5	0,25
6	Aronian Levon	2763	ARM		Ѕ	0			* *	0,5	0	0,0	0,75