GM Hammer and most of the favorites win their games

GM Stuart Concuest surprised at the start of London Classic Open

The London Classic FIDE Open started parallel to the main event. The top seeded GM Jon Ludvig Hammer did not have any problems and scored a full point against David Casiot. GM Arkell, Williams, GM Wells, IM Gullaksen, and GM Hebden all started with victories in round 1.

The major surprise of the day was the defeat of GM Stuart Conquest against Alan Barton. GM Conquest was one of the few titled players to lose points, together with the draw results of IM Loeffler and GM Cherniaev.

All coverage of the tournament at the London Classic general page

Pairings of round 2

Sinanan, Joshua C USA - GM Hammer, Jon Ludvig NOR
Anderton, Matthew N ENG - GM Williams, Simon K ENG
GM Hebden, Mark L ENG - IM Aikhoje, Odion NGR
Stephan, Axel GER - GM Wells, Peter K ENG
Taylor, Peter P ENG - GM Arkell, Keith C ENG
GM Summerscale, Aaron P ENG - CM Coleman, David J ENG
IM Barle, Janez SLO - Roberson, Peter T ENG
Harari, Zaki USA - GM McDonald, Neil ENG
IM Ferguson, Mark ENG - Remmler, Hans-Peter GER
Barrett, Stephen J ENG - IM Crawley, Gavin ENG
IM Gullaksen, Eirik NOR - FM Lasinskas, Povilas LTU
Maduekwe, Chiedu NGR - IM Quillan, Gary ENG
Almond, Richard J ENG - IM Houska, Jovanka ENG
Quinn, John M ENG - IM Buckley, Graeme N ENG
IM Ansell, Simon T ENG - FM Franklin, Michael J ENG
Gavriel, Tryfon C ENG - IM Pcola, Pavol SVK
IM Hennigan, Michael T ENG - CM Friedland, Jon S ENG
McKerracher, Douglas SCO - IM Madan, Augustin ROU
IM Rendle, Thomas E ENG - Pedersen, Carsten DEN
Pupier, Terry - FM Lagerman, Robert ISL
IM Crouch, Colin S ENG - Warman, Simon M ENG
IM Rudd, Jack ENG - Krawczyk, Andrzej POL
Yekta, Alireza S ENG - FM Storey, Charles H ENG
FM Britton, Richard L ENG - Barton, R Alan ENG
GM Cherniaev, Alexander RUS - Ivens, Birger GER
Hodgson, John H ENG - IM Berzinsh, Roland LAT
IM Loeffler, Stefan GER - WIM Regan, Natasha K ENG
IM Bellin, Robert ENG - Tozer, Philip ENG
Bass, John W ENG - Piper, Matthew S ENG
Collyer, Curt D USA - Seymour, Timothy P ENG
FM Lyell, Mark ENG - Sagues, Vincent FRA
Dimitrijeski, Boris GER - Hoffmann, Piotr POL
Chidi, Lovinia Sylvia GER - Osborne, Marcus E ENG
Doran, Chris ENG - Chapman, Terry P D ENG
GM Conquest, Stuart C ENG - Valentine, Brian J ENG
FM Slavin, Alexei RUS - Boger, Raymond NOR
Millward, Kevin P ENG - Rowe, Duane JAM
Yeo, Michael J ENG - Golebiowski, Adam SUI
Player, Edmund C ENG - Campbell, Eoin SCO
Casiot, David J ENG - Cork, David J ENG
Roberts, David L ENG - Tenioso, Jaydee
De Lagontrie, Jean FRA - Gregory, Philip J ENG
Sara, Valerio ITA - Reutimann, Hans Peter SUI
Bishop, Geoffrey L ENG - Calvert, D Ian ENG
Burnham, Frank ENG - Cannon, Raymond C ENG
Tarun, Malhotra IND - Healey, Michael W ENG
Clarke, Brandon G I ENG - Gandolfi, Gianfranco ITA
Posylek, Caesar Cezary CAN - Owen, Dennis ENG
Cutmore, David A ENG - Shaw, Robin A. AUS
Har-Even, Abir ISR - Quinn, Joseph R ENG
Rodriguez Fonseca, Jorge ESP - Healeas, Simon ENG
Bratteteig, Tore-Inge NOR - Bennion, David WLS
Vachtfeidl, Petr CZE - Hamza Mohd Zuhri, Amier MAS
Andrews, Garth J ENG - Phillips, Owen S ENG
Odeh, Kenneth NGR - Sabin, Frank ENG
Grieve, Michael - Lie, Terje NOR
Miotti, David - Phillips, William ENG
Hayward, Alan ENG - Padamadan, Roshan ENG