It is quite remarkable that Mamedyarov’s preperation in the Semi-Tarrasch was checked three times in the same tournament. Adams and Navara both went down, but Ding finally managed to hold, although he had a bit of a shaky ride also.

In the Nc3-Petroff it seems that Caruana has finally joined Team Kingside-Castling, at least for now. Aronian didn’t manage to pose any problems and it looks like that he didn’t really try to do so.