In the opening round of any Swiss league event — where the top half of the seeds play the lower half — mismatches are a norm.
As a result, one-sided encounters remain the order of the day. Amid these emerges a player or two, who returns from an elite competition like the Chess Olympiad, with a special reason to recall and rejoice.
Angola’s No. 1 David Silva surely collected the biggest takeaway from his maiden visit to India when he held World No. 5 Levon Aronian to a draw, and that too, in a superior position, before top seed USA coasted to a 3.5-0.5 victory.
