2nd London Chess Classic:round 6 results and standings,round 7 pairings

The sixth round of the 2nd London Chess Classic was played on Tuesday. Here are the results from all the games: (the player on the left had the white pieces in the game):

Round 6: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Vladimir Kramnik	½-½	Magnus Carlsen
Nigel Short	½-½	David Howell
Luke McShane	½-½	Hikaru Nakamura
Michael Adams	½-½	Viswanathan Anand

Standings after Round 6

Nr	Pno		Title	Name	Rating	Fed	Score	TPR					Birthday	Tiebreak
1	2		GM	Carlsen, Magnus	2802	NOR	10	2776					1990	4 x black
2	1		GM	Anand, Viswanathan	2804	IND	10	2825					1969	3 x black
3	7		GM	McShane, Luke J	2645	ENG	10	2882					1984	2 x black
4	4		GM	Nakamura, Hikaru	2741	USA	9	2779					1987	4 x black
5	3		GM	Kramnik, Vladimir	2791	RUS	9	2757					1975	3 x black
6	5		GM	Adams, Michael	2723	ENG	7	2722					1971
7	8		GM	Howell, David W L	2611	ENG	3	2564					1990
8	6		GM	Short, Nigel D	2680	ENG	2	2446					1965

(Note, games are scored 3 pts for a win, 1 pt for a draw and 0 pts for a loss).

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Here are the pairings for the last round of play (the player on the left has the white pieces in the game):


Round 7: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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Viswanathan Anand -  Vladimir Kramnik

Hikaru Nakamura -Michael Adams

David Howell -Luke McShane

Magnus Carlsen -Nigel Short

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You can read a report concerning round 6 and play through all the games from this round by going to the following website:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6873

The final ranking of the competition is decided by the highest number of points scored.

If the number of points scored by two or more players is equal, tie break rules will be applied in the following order.

1.	Number of games with Black.
2.	Number of games won with Black.
3.	Number of games won.
4.	Ranking based on the games between the tied players only.

If the tie break rules do not clarify the order of the players in the final ranking,  a decision will be reached in over the board play.  If more then two players are still involved, the rapid games will be conducted as a double round all play all.

1.	Two rapid games, 15 minutes per player + 2 seconds for every move.
2.	One Armageddon game, 6 minutes + 2 seconds per move for White, versus 5 minutes + 2 seconds per move for Black, with draw odds for Black.

Source: http://www.londonchessclassic.com/classic/regulations.htm