Biel Young Masters Chess: Caruana leads after a dull seventh round

Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana

Hello Everybody!

The seventh round saw all games drawn at the Biel Young Masters. That leaves Italian GM Fabiano Caruana still in the lead. You can check the official website for photos and the live games. You can watch some interesting videos at the website here.

Results of Round 7 (for pairings' sake!)

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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave-Evgeny Tomashevsky ½ - ½

Maxim Rodshtein-David Howell ½ - ½

Parimarjan Negi-Dmitry Andreikin ½ - ½

Fabiano Caruana-Anish Giri ½ - ½

Wesley So-Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son ½ - ½

Standings after Round 7

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1. Fabiano Caruana (ITA, 2697) 4.5

2. Maxim Rodshtein (ISR, 2609) 4.0

3. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA, 2723) 4.0

4. Dmitry Andreikin (RUS, 2650) 4.0

5. Wesley So (PHI, 2674) 4.0

6. Evgeny Tomashevsky (RUS, 2708) 4.0

7. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (VIE, 2617) 3.5

8. Anish Giri (NED, 2672) 3.0

9. Parimarjan Negi (IND, 2615) 2.0

10. David Howell (ENG, 2616) 2.0

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