Bruzón, tenth of the initial list with 2,673 ELO points, defeated with black pieces his Russian counterpart Sergey Volkov (2,607), due to which he is second in the tie between those who have three points.

In 40 moves with a queen's pawn opening, Bruzón showed total superiority over the board and finished off with an attack on the opponent's king, where the Queen, Castles and Knights were involved.

The other GMs with three points are the Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov (2,669), as winner against Spaniard Francisco Vallejo (2,724) - Russian Evgeny Romanov (2,624), Belarusian Sergei Zhigalko (2,689 ) and Georgia's Mikhail Mchedlishvili (2,618).

The GM Leinier Dominguez (2,719) also won, completing the presence of Cuba, beating in 47 moves with a Spanish opening the local International Master (IM) Sanan Dovliatov (2,411), to reach 2.5points.

The idol of Guines, which appears seventh, dominated the center of the board with white pieces, with a combination of pawns and a pair of knights, which joined the good work of castles in the kingside columns.

Leinier shared the second round table with GM Sarhan Guliev house (2,500) and places him in the group that follows those at the top, with the host GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar (2,765), number one ranking at the start.

On Tuesday, Bruzón had white pieces against Cheparinov, a rival who he knows from other tournaments, a panorama which will be repeated by Leinier as opponent of Russian Dmitry Andreikin (2,696).