Aeroflot open in Moscow

[Brian Towers]

Bartel has drawn, as has the top board game - Gelfand stands better so looks like Najer will win either outright or on tiebreak

Well deserved by Najer.
Gelfand paying the price for a spineless quick round 2 draw with white against a player rated 300 lower than him. Of course it also got him a softer draw.

[Event "Wetherby 4NCL op-A 6th"] [Site "Wetherby"] [Date "2016.01.09"] [Round "3"] [White "Towers, Brian 1779"] [Black "Bramson, Mike 1863"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "D02"] [WhiteElo "1779"] [BlackElo "1863"] [PlyCount "37"] [EventDate "2016.01.08"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "5"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [SourceDate "2016.01.13"] 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 Bd6 5. Bg3 O-O 6. Bd3 Nbd7 7. Ne5 Ne4 8. Qh5 f5 9. Nxd7 Bxd7 10. Bxd6 cxd6 11. Qe2 Qb6 12. c3 Rae8 13. O-O Qd8 14. Nd2 e5 15. f3 Nf6 16. Qf2 Re7 17. Rfe1 e4 18. Bf1 Qe8 19. f4 1/2-1/2

Maybe send him this example of how to play with a firm spine?

Exactly!
That's how you play when you're outrated by about 80 points. Not when you outrate the other guy by 300

[Nick Burrows]

Maybe accepting a draw with the white bits vs a player you can beat is a reason why you are 80 points below him?