Anand already drew Kramnik. Howell has a slightly better position against McShane. Carlsen has a winning position against Short, who probably one of his worst tournaments of his life. If there is no surprise, Carlsen should earn at least a tie for 1st.
Update: Carlsen did win. Short finished with -5 in 7 games.
Update 2: Howell and McShane drew. This means that Carlsen wins clear first!
Vishy Anand 1/2 Vladimir Kramnik
Hikaru Nakamura 1/2 Michael Adams
David Howell 1/2 Luke McShane
Magnus Carlsen 1-0 Nigel Short
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Short should forfeit all his prize money and give it to charity. He doesn’t deserve it with the way he plays. Shameful.
That little boy that was facing a terrible phase in his career and, as some people said, was finished and would never recover his best shape won another tourney . LOL
Nigel should have stayed home and let me play instead 😀
I’m not really a Carlsen fan but they way he played yesterday against Kramnik he certainly deserves something. It was very Karpov like to cling in a worse position and get the draw allowing him to win the tournament.
Carlsen is still the young king!
Work hard Magnus! Be the world champion you are destined to become!
Bravo!
Naka 4th with Kramnik 🙂
Well done to Carlsen and McShane also. Both players played good and interesting chess. Kramnik could’ve tried harder to win the tourney, but he chose a Ruy Lopez Berlin? What can you say to that? Anand also had a chance to win the tourney, so he plays 1e4 against Kramnik knowing that Kramnik will most likely play …1e5? What I like about Carlsen and Topalov also, is that they play a variety of openings and are not affraid to play for a win with black.
Well done Magnus! Only one draw (and what a draw it was!), set you apart from the rest. Well deserved!