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In round 7, the top 8 players will enter into a knock-out round. The 4 winners of this knock-out round will be qualified for the 2016 Masters Group consisting of 10 players. The losers will fall back to the Swiss pairing in round 8. For all players the result of the regular game will be used for the swiss system. The winners will continue to the semi finals during round 8 and final during round 9. In every stage, the losers fall back to the Swiss pairing of the next round.
The results of the knock-out tournament will be treated as guided pairings inside the Swiss tournament and integrated into the overall Swiss pairings and rankings. The top 1 and top 2 spot in the final Swiss ranking are protected: they are for the finalists of the knock-out tournament. In order to guarantee this, after the ranking after round 9 is known, the winner of the final gets 6 extra points added to his total and the loser 3 points.