Draw for Round 2 as follows,
Antonio di Fruscia (1) vs Linao Sha (1)
Tony Norris (1) vs Paolo di Fruscia (1)
Paul McMahon (1) vs Konrad Scheffler (1)
Paul Kemp vs Neel Mishra (1)
Eddie Suay (0.5) vs Will Barton
Aldrich Miguel (0.5) vs Rod Newbery (0.5)
Minh Nguyen (0.5) vs Alex Rawlings (0)
Kayal Vijay (0) vs Alan Wadsworth (0)
Simon Marsden (0) vs Michael Osborn (0)
Nate Weersing (0) vs Ivan Yu (0)
First player named has White. Please arrange with your opponent to complete this game no later than 6th Jan 2027, and E Mail Simon Marsden the result together with date on which the game was played.
The scores from Round 1 shown in parenthesis.