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At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 7 - Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Viswanathan Anand ½-½ Vladimir Kramnik
Hikaru Nakamura ½-½ Michael Adams
David Howell ½-½ Luke McShane
Magnus Carlsen 1-0 Nigel Short

Anand and Kramnik played cracking game but that ended in a draw in 39 moves ... Howell also hold in-form McShane ... Carlsen take full advantage of this situation and defeated Nigel Short in 40 moves to win this London Chess Classic ... Anand and McShane finished on joint second position ... This win also helped Carlsen to secured yearend WR #1 position.

Final standings
Nr Name Rating Fed Score
1 Carlsen Magnus 2802 NOR 13
2 Anand Viswanathan 2804 IND 11
3 McShane Luke J 2645 ENG 11
4 Nakamura Hikaru 2741 USA 10
5 Kramnik Vladimir 2791 RUS 10
6 Adams Michael 2723 ENG 8
7 Howell David W L 2611 ENG 4
8 Short Nigel D 2680 ENG 2
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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Quarter Final
WGM Lufei Ruan (CHN,2480) ½-½ IM Dronavalli Harika (UKR,2462) 2½-1½

Semi Final
GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) vs Yifan Hou (CHN,2591)

Harika lost first Rapid match playing with Whites and then Lufei Ruan managed draw in second Rapid match playing with Whites ... So in semis Humpy is with 3 Chinese girls.

Humpy having tough semi-final against highest rated Chinese player Yifan Hou.