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    Biel, Round 7

    3 He will judge between many peoples
           and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide.
           They will beat their swords into plowshares
           and their spears into pruning hooks.
           Nation will not take up sword against nation,
           nor will they train for war anymore.

     4 Every man will sit under his own vine
           and under his own fig tree,
           and no one will make them afraid,
           for the LORD Almighty has spoken.

    (Micah 4:3-4, New International Version)

     

    6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
           the leopard will lie down with the goat,
           the calf and the lion and the yearling [a] together;
           and a little child will lead them.

     7 The cow will feed with the bear,
           their young will lie down together,
           and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

     8 The infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
           and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.

     9 They will neither harm nor destroy
           on all my holy mountain,
           for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
           as the waters cover the sea.

    (Isaiah 11:6-9, New International Version)

     

    Caruana - Giri 1/2-1/2, 32

    Vachier-Lagrave - Tomashevsky 1/2-1/2, 38

    So - Nguyen 1/2-1/2, 26

    Rodshtein - Howell 1/2-1/2, 52 (ok, not a trivial move count, but the game could have concluded 20-30 moves earlier)

    Negi - Andreikin 1/2-1/2, 28

     

    Totals through round 7: 26 draws, 9 wins. Compare this with Dortmund, where there were 16 draws and 14 wins, even with the alleged King of the Draws (Leko) and the sometimes draw-amenable Kramnik. Maybe it's a sort of contagion? I bet a statistically savyy person could find something interesting here, to see if once you have a couple of players or a couple of rounds with short, fightless draws, it gathers its own momentum and ruins the whole tournament.

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