Final round pairings
| Hikaru Nakamura | – | Victor Bologan | |||
| Wang Hao | – | Anish Giri | |||
| Magnus Carlsen | – | Etienne Bacrot |
Games are scored 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. Time control: 100’/40 moves + 50’/20 moves and 15′ + 30” from 1st move. Draw offer forbidden before 30th move.
If two players finish with the same amount of points after the 10th and last round (Thursday 2nd August 2012), there will be a tie-break on Friday 3rd August.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nakamura will win.
No way… Carlsen is at 17 and Naka’s at 13 , even a loss for carlsen and a win for Naka leaves Nakamura with less points. He played well none the less.