Carlsen neck-and-neck with Aronian

Teimour Radjabov

A win by Magnus Carlsen has brought him up to equal first with Levon Aronian, who drew. In third place, half-a-point behind is Teimour Radjabov. Gata Kamsky won his first game, and Sergey Karjakin has continued his series of decisive results, this time with a win. Pentala Harikrishna and Maxim Turov are the leaders of groups B and C respectively.

The seventh round details:

Group-A:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating	Moves	Opening
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2769	1-0	Veselin Topalov	BUL	2770	99	Sicilian Grand Prix Attack
Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2766	½-½	Levon Aronian	ARM	2835	30	Catalan
Vugar Gashimov	AZE	2761	½-½	Fabiano Caruana	ITA	2736	50	Spanish Neo-Archangel
Loek Van Wely	NED	2692	½-½	Anish Giri	NED	2714	66	Trompovsky
Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2835	1-0	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2739	52	Slav 4.e3
Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2759	½-½	Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2773	28	Sicilian Sveshnikov
Gata Kamsky	USA	2732	1-0	David Navara	CZE	2712	47	Spanish Berlin

The points tally:

Seed	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen	21	NOR	2835	1	5
2	Levon Aronian	29	ARM	2805	2	5
3	Teimour Radjabov	24	AZE	2773	5	4.5
4	Veselin Topalov	36	BUL	2770	6	3
5	Sergey Karjakin	22	RUS	2769	7	3
6	Vassily Ivanchuk	42	UKR	2766	8	4
7	Vugar Gashimov	25	AZE	2761	10	2
8	Hikaru Nakamura	24	USA	2759	12	4
9	Boris Gelfand	43	ISR	2739	16	2.5
10	Fabiano Caruana	19	ITA	2736	17	4
11	Gata Kamsky	37	USA	2732	20	3
12	Anish Giri	17	NED	2714	28	4
13	David Navara	26	CZE	2712	30	1.5
14	Loek Van Wely	39	NED	2692	54	3.5

So Aronian has now been caught by Carlsen.

Round 7:

Group-B:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Illya Nyzhnyk	UKR	2568	1-0	Daniele Vocaturo	ITA	2545
Viktorija Cmilyte	LTU	2503	½-½	Kateryna Lahno	UKR	2557
Sergei Tiviakov	NED	2677	0-1	Sipke Ernst	NED	2606
Vladimir Potkin	RUS	2684	½-½	Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2665
Harika Dronavalli	IND	2516	½-½	Alexander Motylev	RUS	2677
Jan Timman	NED	2568	0-1	Dimitri Reinderman	NED	2581
Erwin L'Ami	NED	2606	½-½	Lazaro Bruzon	CUB	2691

The points so far:

Rk	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Lazaro Bruzon Batista	29	CUB	2691	55	4
2	Vladimir Potkin	29	RUS	2684	65	2.5
3	Sergei Tiviakov	38	NED	2677	70	3
4	Alexander Motylev	32	RUS	2677	72	4.5
5	Pentala Harikrishna	25	IND	2665	82	5.5
6	Sipke Ernst	33	NED	2606	-	3.5
7	Erwin L'Ami	26	NED	2596	-	4
8	Dimitri Reinderman	39	NED	2581	-	4
9	Jan Timman	60!	NED	2571	-	3
10	Illya Nyzhnyk	15	UKR	2568	-	4
11	Kateryna Lahno	22	UKR	2557	5w	3
12	Daniele Vocaturo	22	ITA	2545	-	3
13	Dronavalli Harika	21	IND	2516	11w	2.5
14	Viktorija Cmilyte	28	LTU	2503	16w	2.5

No change at the top with Harikrishna still well ahead.

Round 7:

Group-C:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Elina Danielian	ARM	2490	½-½	Matthew Sadler	ENG	2660
Baskaran Adhiban	IND	2561	1-0	Elisabeth Paehtz	GER	2454
Lisa Schut	NED	2290	0-1	Hans Tikkanen	SWE	2549
Etienne Goudriaan	NED	2279	½-½	Tania Sachdev	IND	2411
Daan Brandenburg	NED	2527	1-0	Pieter Hopman	NED	2342
Maxim Turov	RUS	2645	½-½	Sahaj Grover	IND	2532
Anne Haast	NED	2290	1-0	Lars Ootes	NED	2326