When Carlsen wins and Kramnik draws they would both have 16 points and 1 black victory. What is the next tiebreak?

How I see, Kramnik has two black victories and would just win the tournament with a draw.

Absolutely gutted for Luke. That was just heartbreaking.

If Kramnik won't lose tomorrow he's the winner.

Luke did great, but, in time trouble, he didn't see 35.Rxa5! which would give him the advantage and all the chances to win. For example, if Kraminik played 35....Rxc2?? Mate would follow after 36.Bxf6+

Magnus will maybe not win this tourney, but he will set a new FIDE ratingrecord for himself ;)

So Kramnik won as predicted and Nakamura , the only one able to overtake him in this scenario couldn't break Short. Tommorow Kramnik-Aronian is going to be a draw and Carlsen will most probably win against Short but the tiebreak is not in his favour this time. By all means Carlsen is the player of the year (unless he loses tomorrow against Short :P )

Kramnik had a clean sweep against All British player. 4-0 to be precise.

Wow. With London and Dortmund in the bag Kramnik is surely the most likely suspect to win this year's chess oscar. Good for him!

This surely will rank amongst the most exciting tournaments this year, and it can only get better tommorow!

Peter, the link under the videos called "For iPhone/iPad users: you can access the video feed in iTunes here." does not seem to do anything, either on my computer or on my iphone. Can you get us a good URL please? I would love to download ALL of the london videos to view offline, in a plane, on a bus, etc... thanks!

What an exciting game Luke and Vladimir played today! I would have been happy if *both* of them could have won. And I would have been pleased if they could have shared 1st place in the tournament.
Still, this is a wonderful achievement by Luke, and I want to congratulate him.

Before the tournament I thought this would be Aronian's chance to finish 2011 by winning this tournament but unfortunately he has been far from being impressive - only one win in this field of three 2600ers (and tomorrow vs Kramnik, with black) is quite disappointing; sometimes he is like Anand and does not want to push the game to non-solid positions and he turns to be consent with a simple draw. I hope we will see a very hard-fought encounter between him and Kramnik tomorrow (although my guts tell me that it would be a draw somewhere around the move 30 or 40 after a number of exchanges on the board - I hope both of them will show me that I have been quite wrong on my assumptions :-))

Interesting stats, Kramnik has a win against all the english players

Its a long time, since Kramnik won a tournament with all the heavies! Good for him!
Its not over yet, he's facing Aronian tomorrow, but his chances look great.

Beating all four Brits :-)

He's been showing great fighting spirit this year and it payed off in Dortmund and here. He's especially effective against somewhat weaker players. This used to be a little bit of a soft spot for him: losing to many half points for tournament victories.

Too bad for Luke. He may be a strong 'amateur', but with a little bit more professionalism he probably would not have blown up against Vlad.

Thomas should be happy since he "conjectured" a few months ago that MC could dominate a tourneo iff Kramnik does not participate :)

@S3, forget about bureaucratic stuff, do not you think that Anand already lost his title?

No doubt kramnik's performance has been outstanding, but the chess oscar will go to carlsen this year. Why? Even if Kramnik manages to win outright, he will have won Dortmund and London chess classic.
But- carlsen has won Bazna, Bilbao and Tal Memorial. Be as it may on tiebreaks- still, the field was much better in Bazna, Bilbao and Tal Memorial than in Dortmund and London. So, if you account for the categories of every event, carlsen has played far better this year.

It is very simple actually. Carlsen is the player of the year not because he won more tournaments than Kramnik , but because he was much more consistent in his play and much more stable in his results. Kramnik on the other hand followed quite a zing-zang between "clear first" and "bad result" .

I have to admit I actually don't think Carlsen is best at rabbit farming in the way Kramnik implied, just trying to amuse myself a bit :-) It's a common opinion though, just read what the editor of 64 wrote before Tal Memorial when comparing Carlsen's and Kramnik's chances. The reason Carlsen would have small chances to win Tal Memorial was that there weren't enough players with a low rating in the field, so he expected Kramnik or Aronian to win. Looking at actual facts it's easy to see that these ideas mainly are based on wishful thinking.

This is how Carlsen's and Kramnik's results against 2735+ players have been in 2011:

Carlsen +7 -0 =25
Kramnik +0 -4 =25