Olympiad Round 2: Top Players Play, Norway 2 Holds Ukraine

Making his first Olympiad appearance since 2010, the World Champion played Tomi Nyback of Finland, whom he had lost to at the Dresden 2008 Olympiad. As Black Carlsen didn't get close to a revenge, because Nyback played too solidly
A lot of big names did make it on time to the playing hall, and played their first games: Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vladimir Kramnik, Vassily Ivanchuk and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Unsurprisingly, it was Carlsen's board where all the photographers and cameramen gathered at the start of the round.