Caruana (Photo by Lennart Ootes)
So leads with 4.5 points.
Results of the 6th round
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 1-0 | Levon Aronian | |
| Fabiano Caruana | 1-0 | Hikaru Nakamura | |
| Vladimir Kramnik | ½-½ | Michael Adams | |
| Veselin Topalov | 0-1 | Wesley So | |
| Viswanathan Anand | ½-½ | Anish Giri |
Standings after 6 rounds
So 4.5
Caruana 4
Kramnik 3.5
Aronian, Giri, Nakamura, Anand and Vachier-Lagrave 3
Adams 2.5
Topalov 0.5
Games of the round
Pairings of the 7th round
| Levon Aronian | – | Viswanathan Anand | |
| Anish Giri | – | Veselin Topalov | |
| Wesley So | – | Vladimir Kramnik | |
| Michael Adams | – | Fabiano Caruana | |
| Hikaru Nakamura | – | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |