Naiditsch played a stunning game to beat Fridman. The German has been involved in as many as five decisive games out of a total six in the tournament and he continued with his do-or-die approach even as black against Fridman.

The King's Indian defense met with the Classical set up and Naiditsch threw the position open with a fantastic knight sacrifice in the middle game. The move left everyone present shocked as black slowly developed an attack against a weak white king. According to the machines, the position was defendable but it was out of the wits of a human mind to sustain such pressure. This was certainly the game of the tournament thus far. Luck continued to be on the side of Caruana as he survived another mishap. Meier had a winning position on board and was just one correct move away to score his first victory but the German erred decisively to reach a drawn queen and pawns endgame. Results round 6: V Anand (Ind, 3.5) drew with Michael Adams (Eng, 2.5); Georg Meier (Ger, 2) drew with Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 4); Daniel Fridman (Ger, 2.5) lost to Arkadij Naiditsch (Ger, 3.5). The moves: V Anand � M Adams 1. E4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. D3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. A3 O-O 9. Nc3 Na5 10. Ba2 c5 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. Bxd5 Bb7 13. B4 Bxd5 14. Exd5 Nb7 15. C3 Qc7 16. Re1 f5 17. Bg5 Rae8 18. A4 cxb4 19. Cxb4 Bxg5 20. Nxg5 Nd8 21. Axb5 axb5 22. Qd2 h6 23. Nf3 Qf7 24. Qa2 Qf6 25. Nd2 Nf7 26. Qa6 e4 27. dxe4 fxe4 28. Qxb5 e3 29. Fxe3 Rxe3 30. Qb6 Rxe1+ 31. Rxe1 Qc3 32. Qe3 Qxb4 33. Nf3 Qc5 34. Qxc5 dxc5 35. Re7 Rd8 36. Ne5 Nxe5 37. Rxe5 Kf7 38. D6 c4 39. Re7+ 39. Rc5 Kf6 40. Rc7 Rxd6 41. Rxc4 game drawn.