Experience leading the field

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After the sixth round you could say that Experience is leading the field. After Anand had drawn his game against Leko with Black in a line they had studied together some ten years ago, Gelfand (after Anand the oldest player in the field, followed by Anand) won again, this time against Morozevich, and so the Israeli is joining Vishy on the first spot. Svidler and Grischuk fought a great battle today, which they both clearly enjoyed themselves as well. After both had had won positions, eventually the point was shared. This had also happend in the early afternoon between Aronian and Kramnik, who went through an ultra-correct Catalan.

Aronian was curious about how Kramnik, who's so succesful himself in the Catalan, would react to this opening. The line that was chosen by the world champion isn't known as very good for Black, but undeservedly. Aronian chose not to take risks and grabbed the draw when it was there.

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Since Leko was so surprised by Anand's opening choice, he decided to go for an old line (13.Be3, called "a relic" by Kasparov) and only his 17.Re1 was new, but not dangerous.

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As mentioned there was much exciting stuff in Grischuk-Svidler. The whole Grischuk team had forgotten to check the line played by Svidler and so Black came out of the opening with an advantage. But 24...bxc4? was wrong and so was 37.Pxe6?.

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Though Gelfand has a very serious attitude from outside, he's probably the happiest player in the field right now. He reacted well to Morozevich's Petrosian-like exchange sac by activating the white rook via the fourth rank, when suddenly things were going bad for Black.

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Results/schedule:

Round 1: Thursday, Sept. 13th 2007, 14:00h Kramnik  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Svidler Morozevich  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Aronian Anand  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Gelfand Grischuk  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Leko	Round 2: Friday, Sept. 14th 2007, 14:00h Svidler  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Leko Gelfand  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Grischuk Aronian  0-1  Anand Kramnik  1-0  Morozevich
Round 3: Saturday, Sept. 15th 2007, 14:00h Morozevich  1-0  Svidler Anand  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Kramnik Grischuk  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Aronian Leko  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Gelfand	Round 4: Sunday, Sept 16th 2007, 14:00h Svidler  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Gelfand Aronian  1-0  Leko Kramnik  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Grischuk Morozevich  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Anand
Free day: Monday, Sept. 11th 2007	Round 5: Tuesday, Sept. 18th 2007, 14:00h Anand  1-0  Svidler Grischuk  1-0  Morozevich Leko  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Kramnik Gelfand  1-0  Aronian
Round 6: Wednesday, Sept. 19th 2007, 14:00h Aronian  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Kramnik Gelfand  1-0  Morozevich Grischuk  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Svidler Leko  ?Ǭ?-?Ǭ?  Anand	Round 7: Thursday, Sept. 20th 2007, 14:00h Anand     Grischuk Kramnik     Gelfand Morozevich     Leko Svidler     Aronian

Second half

Round 8: Friday, Sept. 21st 2007, 14:00h Svidler     Kramnik Aronian     Morozevich Gelfand     Anand Leko     Grischuk	Free day: Saturday, Sept. 22nd 2007
Round 9: Sunday, Sept. 23th 2007, 14:00h Anand     Aronian Grischuk     Gelfand Leko     Svidler Morozevich     Kramnik	Round 10: Monay, Sept. 24th 2007, 14:00h Aronian     Grischuk Gelfand     Leko Kramnik     Anand Svidler     Morozevich
Round 11: Tuesday, Sept. 25th 2007, 14:00h Anand     Morozevich Gelfand     Svidler Grischuk     Kramnik Leko     Aronian	Free day: Wednesday, Sept. 26th 2007
Round 12: Thursday, Sept 27th 2007, 14:00h Aronian     Gelfand Kramnik     Leko Morozevich     Grischuk Svidler     Anand	Round 13: Friday, Sept. 28th 2007, 14:00h Aronian     Svidler Grischuk     Anand Leko     Morozevich Gelfand     Kramnik
Round 14: Saturday, Sept. 29th 2007, 14:00h Anand     Leko Kramnik     Aronian Morozevich     Gelfand Svidler     Grischuk	Sunday, Sept. 30th 2007 Possible tiebreaks, closing ceremony