Wang Hao has now joined the leaders Levon Aronian and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with two rounds to go.
Round 7 (12th of November):
Levon Aronian | ARM | 2801 | 0.5-0.5 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2741 | 60 | King's Indian g3 Panno | The American kept his position active and liquidation never really upset the balance in a lively encounter. |
Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2791 | 0.5-0.5 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2763 | 51 | Grünfeld Exchange Be3 | The two rooks and opposite bishop pseudo-endgame became very sharp with passed pawns and target kings leading to complications but ultimately a repetition. |
Wang Hao | CHI | 2727 | 1-0 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2741 | 75 | Semi-Slav Defence Marshall | Black eventually liberated but Wang Hao nevertheless kept his pieces active and snatched a pawn whilst simplifying to a rook ending with an extra pawn. |
Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2742 | 0.5-0.5 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2760 | 56 | Catalan Opening | Karjakin pressed in the endgame with his potential outside passed pawn, but Eljanov created enough threats of his own to force drawish opposite bishops. |
Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2771 | 0.5-0.5 | Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2735 | 88 | Queen's Gambit Cambridge Springs | Shirov grabbed a hot pawn and rode the storm emerging with 4 v 3 on the kingside but Grischuk held firm. |
Many draws today but the players can't be accused of being timid. They created some exciting games that were fought out to the bitter end.
The table after seven rounds is as follows:
Standing | Name | Country | Rating | World rank | Age | + | = | - | Points |
1= | Levon Aronian | ARM | 2801 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4.5 |
1= | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2763 | 8 | 25 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4.5 |
1= | Wang Hao | CHI | 2727 | 18 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4.5 |
4= | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2771 | 6 | 27 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
4= | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2760 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
4= | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2741 | 15 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
7 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2791 | 4 | 35 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3.5 |
8= | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2742 | 13 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
8= | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2741 | 14 | 42 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
8= | Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2735 | 16 | 38 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
As a reminder the results of the earlier rounds were as follows:
Round 1 (5th of November):
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2763 | 0.5-0.5 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2741 | 43 | Queen's Gambit Declined Lasker |
Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2760 | 1-0 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2741 | 57 | Petroff Defence |
Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2735 | 0-1 | Wang Hao | CHI | 2727 | 51 | French Defence |
Levon Aronian | ARM | 2801 | 1-0 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2791 | 41 | Queen's Gambit Ragozin |
Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2771 | 1-0 | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2742 | 58 | Catalan/Bogoljubov |
Round 2 (6th of November):
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2763 | 0.5-0.5 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2760 | 39 | Nimzoindian Defence 4.g3 |
Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2741 | 1-0 | Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2735 | 61 | Slav Defence |
Wang Hao | CHI | 2727 | 0.5-0.5 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 2801 | 39 | Catalan Opening |
Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2791 | 0.5-0.5 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2771 | 39 | Queen's Gambit Declined |
Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2741 | 1-0 | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2742 | 40 | Catalan/Bogoljubov |
Round 3 (7th of November):
Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2735 | 0-1 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2763 | 71 | Spanish Breyer |
Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2760 | 0.5-0.5 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2741 | 70 | Spanish Berlin |
Levon Aronian | ARM | 2801 | 1-0 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2741 | 43 | Catalan Opening |
Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2771 | 0.5-0.5 | Wang Hao | CHI | 2727 | 22 | Slav Defence |
Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2742 | 0-1 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2791 | 51 | Nimzoindian Defence 4.Qc2 |
Round 4 (8th of November):
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2763 | 0.5-0.5 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 2801 | 35 | Slav Defence |
Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2760 | 0.5-0.5 | Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2735 | 63 | Spanish Neo-Archangel |
Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2741 | 0.5-0.5 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2771 | 43 | Catalan/Bogljubov |
Wang Hao | CHI | 2727 | 0.5-0.5 | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2742 | 79 | English Opening |
Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2741 | 0.5-0.5 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2791 | 33 | Petroff Defence |
Round 5 (10th of November):
Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2771 | 0.5-0.5 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2763 | 49 | Anti-Grünfeld |
Levon Aronian | ARM | 2801 | 0.5-0.5 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2760 | 56 | Nimzoindian with g3 |
Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2735 | 0.5-0.5 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2741 | 79 | Spanish Berlin |
Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2742 | 1-0 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2741 | 53 | Semi-Slav Meran |
Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2791 | 0.5-0.5 | Wang Hao | CHI | 2727 | 34 | Semi-Tarrasch |
Round 6 (11th of November):
Hikaru Nakamura | USA | 2741 | 0.5-0.5 | Wang Hao | CHI | 2727 | 25 | French Steinitz |
Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2760 | 0.5-0.5 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2771 | 46 | Sicilian Najdorf |
Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2735 | 0.5-0.5 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 2801 | 33 | Spanish Marshall |
Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2741 | 0.5-0.5 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2791 | 32 | Catalan/Bogoljubov |
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | AZE | 2763 | 1-0 | Pavel Eljanov | UKR | 2742 | 49 | Slav Defence |
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