| Nakamura, Hikaru | – Wang Hao | ½ |
| Karjakin, Sergey | – Grischuk, Alexander | ½ |
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | – Eljanov, Pavel | 1-0 |
| Gelfand, Boris | – Kramnik, Vladimir | ½ |
| Shirov, Alexei | – Aronian, Levon | ½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar

I thought today’s games were quite boring honestly. Those kibitzing seemed to be saying the same thing too.