Many games ended in draws as always in these last rounds. One of them was Polgar-Aronian they smashed 27 moves of Marshall theory onto the board in no time. 27…Re5 was new compared to Nakamura-Aronian, Gibraltar 2005, and the ending was drawish.

Carlsen has took out from opening book, played unusual scheme! after a very hard fight in opposite colored bishop's position followed draw agreement.

Another important game was between Anand and Kramnik, was played as usual Petroff's defence. They followed Svidler-Kramnik, Mexico 2007, until Black brought a novelty with 23…hxg4. Vishy was winning… until he missed 51.Rd1!, which is winning according to the engines. Anand could shared the 1-3 places with Aronian and Carlsen! In the end of game followed draw agreement.

Leko finished his tournament with a victory against Mamedyarov, who disappointed this year. Out of the opening Black got some troubles and after he missed 22…Ne5, it was over already.

Michael Adams was a bit surprised today by Veselin Topalov’s choice of opening today. Most of the moves were known theory, including the temporary pawn sac by black, and the well-advised returning of it by white. In the post mortem, Adams said that maybe 22.f3 wasn’t necessary, but in any event black was doing well, and a draw was agreed one move later.

Finally a win for Boris Gelfand, at the expense of Pavel Eljanov. After the game Boris said he already played this opening “before my opponent was born” . Black’s hanging pawn formation makes it hard for him to find an active plan, and when he tried anyway, his weaknesses started to tell. Gelfand managed to provoke 23...f6, with a softening of the kingside, and soon won a pawn. Black’s 33...d4?  gave up a second pawn, hoping to get some counterplay, but the Israeli carefully defused it. After 37.f3, massive material losses were inevitable for black, and so he had to resign shortly thereafter.

Michael Adams was a bit surprised today by Veselin Topalov’s choice of opening today. Most of the moves were known theory, including the temporary pawn sac by black, and the well-advised returning of it by white. In the post mortem, Adams said that maybe 22.f3 wasn’t necessary, but in any event black was doing well, and a draw was agreed one move later.

In Vassily Ivanchuk - Loek van Wely, the Dutchman confused his move order (10...Nbd7?! instead of 10...dxc4) and so had to allow his opponent to weaken his kingside pawn structure. Later, after black had sacrificed a pawn, the Ukrainian should have tried 20.f3!  getting rid of the centralized knight and reactivating his passive bishop, instead of the game’s 20.Na5?. Once white had missed this, black managed to tactically hold his position, and after a few moves in the knight ending, a draw was registered.

Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen drew their games today, and are the joint winners of the 70th Corus Chess Tournament Grandmaster Group A!

Final tabale:

No	Name	Country	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Score	place
1	V. Kramnik	RUS	2799	x	½	½	1	½	1	½	½	0	½	½	0	½	½	6½	7-8
2	T. Radjabov	AZE	2735	½	x	½	1	½	0	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	½	7½	3-4
3	S. Mamedyarov	AZE	2760	½	½	x	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	0	0	½	1	6	9-11
4	P. Eljanov	UKR	2692	0	0	½	x	½	½	0	1	1	0	½	0	½	½	5	12-14
5	M. Adams	ENG	2726	½	½	½	½	x	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	1	6½	7-8
6	L. Aronian	ARM	2739	0	1	½	½	½	x	½	½	1	1	½	½	½	1	8	1-2
7	V. Ivanchuk	UKR	2751	½	½	½	1	½	½	x	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	7	5-6
8	J. Polgar	HUN	2707	½	½	½	0	1	½	½	x	½	1	½	0	0	½	6	9-11
9	V. Topalov	BUL	2780	1	½	½	0	½	0	½	½	x	1	1	½	0	0	6	9-11
10	B. Gelfand	ISR	2737	½	0	½	1	½	0	½	0	0	x	½	½	½	½	5	12-14
11	P. Leko	HUN	2753	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	0	½	x	1	½	½	7	5-6
12	M. Carlsen	NOR	2733	1	½	1	1	½	½	½	1	½	½	0	x	0	1	8	1-2
13	V. Anand	IND	2799	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	½	½	1	x	½	7½	3-4
14	L. van Wely	NED	2681	½	½	0	½	0	0	½	½	1	½	½	0	½	x	5	12-14

Games round 13

Press conference Aronian and Carlsen

Interview winer Group "B"  Movsesian

Interview winer Group "C" Caruana