David Howell, playing White in the king's Indian, had the safer king but as the complications subsided he was just left with a miserable endgame where Black has a passed pawn that was going to prove problematic to stop.
Name | Rating | Country | Result | Name | Rating | Country | No. of Moves |
Evgeny Tomashevsky | RUS | 2708 | 0.5-0.5 | Wesley So | PHI | 2674 | 24 |
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | VIE | 2617 | 0.5-0.5 | Fabiano Caruana | ITA | 2697 | 31 |
Anish Giri | NED | 2672 | 0.5-0.5 | Parimarjan Negi | IND | 2615 | 20 |
Dmitry Andreikin | RUS | 2650 | 0.5-0.5 | Maxim Rodshtein | ISR | 2609 | 20 |
David Howell | ENG | 2616 | 0-1 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA | 2723 | 40 |
The other four games suggested that most players are remaining in a cautious mood.
The Frenchman's win takes him up into the 'peloton' on 'plus-one' whereas Howell's loss means that he drops to equal last with Negi.
Seed | Name | Country | Rating | Points |
1st | Fabiano Caruana | ITA | 2697 | 4 |
2nd-6th | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA | 2723 | 3.5 |
2nd-6th | Evgeny Tomashevsky | RUS | 2708 | 3.5 |
2nd-6th | Wesley So | PHI | 2674 | 3.5 |
2nd-6th | Dmitry Andreikin | RUS | 2650 | 3.5 |
2nd-6th | Maxim Rodshtein | ISR | 2609 | 3.5 |
7th | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | VIE | 2617 | 3 |
8th | Anish Giri | NED | 2672 | 2.5 |
9th-10th | David Howell | ENG | 2616 | 1.5 |
9th-10th | Parimarjan Negi | IND | 2615 | 1.5 |
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