Shirov wins again to move to 5.0/5! Nakamura, Ivanchuk, and Carlsen all drew to fall to a point and a half back at 3.5/5. Kramnik won his first game and is now sitting in 5th place with 3.0/5.
Round 6:
Shirov vs Short
Anand vs Carlsen
Ivanchuk vs Nakamura
Kramnik vs Van Wely
Prediction: Shirov will draw to rise to 5.5/6. Kramnik will win to join the chase pack at 4.0/6. The other leaders' games will draw.
Shirov is enjoying "relatively" easy players in the first half of the tournament. Of his opponents so far, only Peter Leko is rated above 2700. His next round (Rd 6) is against a sub 2700 (Nigel Short), but then he has murder's row in rds 7-13! Nakamura, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Anand, Kramnik, Karjakin, and Dominguez. 2700s all! (except Carlsen, who's a 2800). Rounds 8-11 look especially hairy. Still, if Shirov just manages an even score from here on out, he'll finish with 9.0/13. That's a point more than Karjakin won with in 2009.
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