All the games were drawn today, but all five games had at least some fight. More: in all five games there was at least one moment where one of the players had a very real chance to play for a win. Even in the game between Dariusz Swiercz and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, which was clearly heading for a draw well before the time control, there was a moment when Swiercz had an opportunity for an advantage. Richard Rapport had chances against Sam Shankland on multiple occasions, and Jeffery Xiong had his chances against Wesley So as well.
The biggest opportunity belonged to Peter Svidler, but finding 33...b5!! and all the complex, beautiful variations that ensue would have been a real achievement.
Chances are that if you watched the round live, however, you took little notice of the four aforementioned games, and were riveted to the Najdorf battle between Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. The players both in their prep for a very long time - probably until at least White's 30th move. MVL had only engaged in a couple of moderate thinks up to that point, while Caruana had more time on his clock than he started with. This state of affairs soon changed. MVL started burning more time at that point, while Caruana thought more than 50 minutes on his 34th move. (When he reached the time control on move 40, he did so with only a minute to spare.) Ironically, Caruana had some chances to play for a win, but the lines were so subtle that he needed more time to find them! (94 minutes for 10 moves - plus five more minutes from the increments - wasn't enough.)
The games, with some notes to four of them, are here. These are the pairings for round 7: