There were a number of decisive results right after the rest day. The tournament leader lost while the bottom seed won back to back games. Ivanchuk lost again to fall even further back.
Round 6 results:
| Aronian, Levon | – Ivanchuk, Vassily | 1-0 | |||
| Leko, Peter | – Alekseev, Evgeny | ½-½ | |||
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | – Grischuk, Alexander | 1-0 | |||
| Kamsky, Gata | – Gelfand, Boris | ½-½ | |||
| Akopian, Vladimir | – Karjakin, Sergey | 1-0 | |||
| Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | – Bacrot, Etienne | ½-½ | |||
| Eljanov, Pavel | – Svidler, Peter | 0-1 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Ivanchuk is tanking this year.
Did you already forget his shared first place in Linares? Before that, he played badly (i.e. below his level and ELO expectation) at Corus.
If there is some logic in his jo-joing, we can expect a lot of him at the MTel masters …. though there is at most a weak correlation between Chucky and logic.