Second seed GM Cheparinov is leading the top seed GM Adams by 1/2 point heading to the final round. They just happen to face each other at the pinnacle moment for the title. It does not get any better than this.
Final round:
| Cheparinov, Ivan | – Adams, Michael | 1/2 |
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| Granda, Julio E | – Cramling, Pia | 1-0 | |||
| Caruana, Fabiano | – Perez, Manuel | 1-0 |
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| Koneru, Humpy | – Larino, David | 1-0 |
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[White “GM Koneru”]
[Black “IM Larino”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “E60”]
[WhiteElo “2612”]
[BlackElo “2464”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 c5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bg2 Qa5+ 6. Bd2 Qb6 7. dxc5 Qxc5 8. Qb3 d5 9. cxd5 Qxd5 10. Qa3 Nc6 11. Nc3 Qc4 12. Rc1 O-O 13. O-O h6 14. Rfd1 Bf5 15. Be3 Rfd8 16. Nd2 Qe6 17. Nb3 Rxd1+ 18. Rxd1 Bh3 19. Nc5 Qf5 20. Nxb7 Bxg2 21. Kxg2 Ng4 22. Nd5 Rb8 23. Na5 Qh5 24. Nxc6 Qxh2+ 25. Kf3 e5 26. Qxa7 Rxb2 27. Nce7+ Kh7 28. Qa8 e4+ 29. Kxe4 Qg2+ 30. Kd3 Ne5+ 31. Kc3 Nd7+ 32. Bd4 Rb8 33. Nf6+ 1-0
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Humpy is good ‘but’ not good enough for the top.
Granda – Cramling 1-0.