Ivanchuk wins the Capablanca memorial for the fourth time.

Ivanchuk's called upon his experience to find the right line to reduce losing chances to a minimum. He chose a steady line of the English where he induced an early exchange of queens, and with a symmetric structure the minor pieces followed. The draw was inevitable and kept him ahead of his main rival.

Those lines of the Sicilian Najdorf involving 6.Bg5 are generally considered to be some of the sharpest theoretical lines around. This game however was a quiet manoeuvring game where theory wasn't important! White's advantage consisted of the fact that castling was always going to be a delicate operation for Black. Bruzon delayed this until move thirty (when he had ran out of useful manoeuvres) but his monarch still came under pressure. Bruzon survived for a while, but Short won a pawn and kept up a decisive attack on Black's king even after simplification.

Dominguez won his first game after a temporary piece sacrifice in the early middlegame led to Alekseev having the most vulnerable king. The Russian gave up a pawn to activate in the queen and rook pseudo-ending, but Dominguez carefully consolidated before reverting to a direct attack to finish the game.

So the positions remain the same after the final round.

In terms of rating points, Ivanchuk's gain more-or-less negates his recent dissappointing performances.

Nepomniachtchi goes above 2700 for the first time.

Alekseev loses this status after a poor result.

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