Lest I stay up all night, here's a quick survey of the day's other chess results.
1. U.S. Championship: Hikaru Nakamura continued the professional pattern of winning with White and drawing with Black. Today it was the draw's turn, as he split the point with third seed Alexander Onischuk. He had been tied for first with Gata Kamsky, but Kamsky lost with Black to Gregory Kaidanov, and now it's Kaidanov who is tied with Nakamura; both players have 3/4.
In other results, Ray Robson defeated Robert Hess while Yasser Seirawan finally got on the scoreboard with a long win over Alejandro Ramirez. If either Alex Lenderman or Yuri Shulman had won their games, they would have joined the tie for first, but they drew with Varuzhan Akobian and Alexander Stripunsky, respectively.
Round 5 Pairings:
Stripunsky (1.5) - Seirawan (1)
Lenderman (2.5) - Shulman (2.5)
Kamsky (2.5) - Akobian (2)
Nakamura (3) - Kaidanov (3)
Hess (1.5) - Onischuk (2)
Ramirez (1) - Robson (1.5)
The women's event has only 10 players rather than 12, so they had the day off today.
2. Sigeman & Co.:
Three of the seven rounds are finished, and Fabiano Caruana could not make a "row" - his winning streak stopped at two games. Still, his draw with Peter Leko was enough to keep him in clear first, half a point ahead of Nils Grandelius. Five players have 1.5 points, which means, surprisingly, that the tournament's plus scores are all balanced on one man's shoulders: Hans Tikkanen has opened the tournament by castling queenside.
Vassily Ivanchuk rolls on! By defeating Leinier Dominguez in round 7 - with the black pieces, no less - he pushed his lead to a full point with three rounds to go. His score of 5/7 has him a point ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi, and has moved him up to #8 on the live rating list.