The fourth round of the GM tournaments were played today at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.At the end of the day in Group A, GM Anand, (pictured on the right) and GM Nakamura (pictured on the left) are tied for the lead. Here are the results and standings:
Grandmaster Group A:
Results Round 4 - Tuesday the 18th
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V. Anand - W. Hao 1-0
A. Grischuk - V. Kramnik ½-½
L. Aronian - I. Nepomniachtchi 1-0
A. Shirov - M. Vachier-Lagrave 0-1
A. Giri - H. Nakamura ½-½
R. Ponomariov - M. Carlsen ½-½
E. l'Ami - J. Smeets ½-½
Standings after round 4
| 1. | V. Anand H. Nakamura | 3 |
| 3. | L. Aronian A. Giri M. Vachier-Lagrave | 2½ |
| 6. | V. Kramnik E. l'Ami I. Nepomniachtchi R. Ponomariov J. Smeets | 2 |
| 11. | M. Carlsen A. Grischuk | 1½ |
| 13. | W. Hao | 1 |
| 14. | A. Shirov | ½ |
Here are the results and standings for the other two Grandmaster tournments. In Grandmaster Group B, GM Luke McShane of Great Britain leads the tournament by a full point over his nearest rivals.Here are the results from the fourth round of GM Group B:
Grandmaster Group B:
Results Round 4 - Tuesday the 18th
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L. Fressinet - S. Ganguly 1-0
W. So - Z. Efimenko ½-½
D. Navara - J. Hammer ½-½
W. Spoelman - G. Sargissian ½-½
L. Chao - L. Liem 1-0
V. Tkachiev - R. Wojtaszek ½-½
F. Nijboer - L. McShane ½-½
Standings after round 4
-----------------------| 1. | L. McShane | 3½ |
| 2. | Z. Efimenko L. Fressinet D. Navara G. Sargissian | 2½ |
| 6. | F. Nijboer W. So W. Spoelman R. Wojtaszek | 2 |
| 10. | L. Chao S. Ganguly V. Tkachiev | 1½ |
| 13. | J. Hammer L. Liem | 1 |
Grandmaster Group C:
Here are the results from the fourth round of GM Group C:
Results Round 4 - Tuesday the 18th
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B. Bok - M. Kazhgaleyev 1-0
J.W. de Jong - D. Vocaturo 0-1
M. Bluvshtein - R. van Kampen 1-0
T. Sachdev - I. Nyzhnyk 0-1
R. Pruijssers - D. Swiercz 0-1
M. van der Werf - K. Lahno 1-0
S. Siebrecht - I. Ivanisevic ½-½
As a consequence of these results, 4th seeded GM Daniele Vocaturo of Italy leads the tournament:
Standings after round 4
| 1. | D. Vocaturo | 3½ |
| 2. | M. Bluvshtein I. Nyzhnyk | 3 |
| 4. | B. Bok K. Lahno S. Siebrecht | 2½ |
| 7. | T. Sachdev D. Swiercz M. van der Werf | 2 |
| 10. | I. Ivanisevic | 1½ |
| 11. | M. Kazhgaleyev R. Pruijssers R. van Kampen | 1 |
| 14. | J.W. de Jong | ½ |
Tomorrow, the players will enjoy their first rest day of the event. Play will resume on Thursday with these pairings:
(the player on the left has the white pieces in the game):
Grandmaster Group A:
Round 5 - Thursday the 20th
J. Smeets - V. Anand
M. Carlsen - E. l'Ami
H. Nakamura - R. Ponomariov
M. Vachier-Lagrave - A. Giri
I. Nepomniachtchi - A. Shirov
V. Kramnik - L. Aronian
W. Hao - A. Grischuk
Grandmaster Group B:
Round 5 - Thursday the 20th
L. McShane - L. Fressinet
R. Wojtaszek - F. Nijboer
L. Liem - V. Tkachiev
G. Sargissian - L. Chao
J. Hammer - W. Spoelman
Z. Efimenko - D. Navara
S. Ganguly - W. So
Grandmaster Group C:
Round 5 - Thursday the 20th
I. Ivanisevic - B. Bok
K. Lahno - S. Siebrecht
D. Swiercz - M. van der Werf
I. Nyzhnyk - R. Pruijssers
R. van Kampen - T. Sachdev
D. Vocaturo - M. Bluvshtein
M. Kazhgaleyev - J.W. de Jong
Here are some links relating to round 4:
You can play through the moves of all the games in all GM tournaments by going to the following page at the Chessbase.com website:
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6950 or to this page at the Chessvibes website:
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/anand-catches-nakamura-in-4th-round-tata/
Here are the crosstables from each tournament after 4 rounds of play. I created these using the program Chessbase 11:
Grandmaster Group A:
Grandmaster Group B:
Grandmaster Group C:
The four digit number at the very right of each column is the performance rating of the player thus far in the tournament.
