2011 FIDE Candidates matches:Round 1 Game 4: Topalov and Mamedyarov eliminated!

The fourth games of all the Candidates matches were played today in Kazan,   Tatarstan. All of the games ended in draws. A draw result was most significant in the Kamsky-Topalov match and the Gelfand-Mamedyarov match because it meant that Topalov and Mamedyarov are both now eliminated from further play in the World Chess Championship!! Congratulations to Gata Kamsky and Boris Gelfand  for your victories in these matches. The players in the other two matches, Aronian-Grischuk and Kramnik-Radjabov
now must play tie-breaks to decide who moves onto the next round. These te-breaks  will consist of four rapid chess games, and if the tie is still not broken then the players will play  five two-game blitz matches 5'+3". Finally there may be a sudden-death final decider.

Here are the standings in all of the matches after 4 games:

Scoreboard Nat. Rtg G1 G2 G3 G4 R1 R2 R3 R4 Tot. Perf Levon Aronian ARM 2808 ½ ½ ½ ½ 2.0 Alexander Grischuk  RUS 2747 ½ ½ ½ ½ 2.0 Nat. Rtg G1 G2 G3 G4 R1 R2 R3 R4 Tot. Perf Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2785 ½ ½ ½ ½ 2.0 Teimour Radjabov  AZE 2744 ½ ½ ½ ½ 2.0 Nat. Rtg G1 G2 G3 G4 R1 R2 R3 R4 Tot. Perf Veselin Topalov BUL 2775 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1.5 Gata Kamsky USA 2732 ½ 1 ½ ½ 2.5 Nat. Rtg G1 G2 G3 G4 R1 R2 R3 R4 Tot. Perf Boris Gelfand ISR 2733 ½ ½ 1 ½ 2.5 Shak. Mamedyarov  AZE 2772 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1.5