As it happened in the game, Caruana enjoyed the pull after trading the queens and towards the end of the game Anand had to find some accurate moves that he was pleased with. The game was drawn after 44 moves.

Meier was also quite happy with his effort. After missing a one-move win against Caruana in the previous round the German played out a fine technical game to beat Fridman out of a Catalan opening. Fridman spent a lot of time in the early stages of the game to fall under time pressure and he committed the fatal error to reach a pawn less endgame. Precise calculation ensured Meier an easy victory after 60 moves. Adams got a positional advantage out of an irregular English opening against Naiditsch but kept missing good moves to fall in some real problems. "I had a very nice position and then I gradually made it worse, steadily move by move, but not quite enough to lose," was how Adams summed up the drawn game. Results round 7: Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 4.5) drew with V Anand (Ind, 4); Michael Adams (Eng, 3) drew with Arkadij Naiditsch (Ger, 4); Georg Meier (Ger, 3) beat Daniel Fridman (Ger, 2.5).