Antipodeans in London.

It is a long way to the Heart of the Empire but four of us made it.The Womens tournament features Shannon Oliver from Australia who is in London primarily for the shopping I assume but has has the convenient excuse of Study to mask her spree of the London shops.

After winning her first round game against top seed IMSusan Lalic she has not fared so well and is on 1/4

Natasha Fairly has the same score through two draws.

Another New Zealand star is here, Sue Maroroa, but she is restricting her Chess to blitz

and yours truly has recovered from the mobile loss with three straight wins.

Here are two of them

In the main tournament Luke McShane has been joined by Vishy Anand in the lead. The official site  has more.