The names of the eight remaining players are now known and they will stay in Khanty Mansiysk a little longer.
There are three Russians, two Ukrainians, two Azeri's and one Israeli, all of whom are rated more than 2700.
Here is a summary of the fourth round play-offs. Three matches required rapidplay games:
| Name | Country | Rating | Age | Classical Game 1 | Classical Game 2 | Rapid 3 | Rapid 4 | Rapid 5 | Rapid 6 | Name | Country | Rating | Age |
| Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 2758 | 23 | 0.5-0.5 | 0.5-0.5 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0.5-0.5 | Fabiano Caruana | ITA | 2652 | 17 | |
| Etienne Bacrot | FRA | 2700 | 26 | 0.5-0.5 | 0.5-0.5 | 0.5-0.5 | 0.5-0.5 | 0.5-0.5 | 0-1 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 2739 | 26 |
| Wesley So | PHI | 2640 | 16 | 0.5-0.5 | 0.5-0.5 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-1 | Vladimir Malakhov | RUS | 2706 | 29 |
Clearly Gashimov and Malakhov were able to dominate their younger opponents in rapidplay.
The final two duels went as far as the pairs of blitz games which start from the seventh game and continue onwards.
| Name | Country | Rating | Age | Classical 1 | Classical 2 | Rapid 3 | Rapid 4 | Rapid 5 | Rapid 6 | Blitz 7 | Blitz 8 |
| Maxime Vachier_Lagrave | FRA | 2718 | 19 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2758 | 41 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 |
Boris managed to win the second Blitz player to overcome the young Frenchman who is less than half his age.
On paper the all-Russian encounter between Grischuk and Jakovenko was evenly matched and it proved to be with the difference only being made late in the day.
| Name | Country | Rating | Age | Classical 1 | Classical 2 | Rapid 3 | Rapid 4 | Rapid 5 | Rapid 6 | Blitz 7 | Blitz 8 |
| Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2736 | 26 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Dmitry Jakovenko | RUS | 2736 | 26 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 |
In the three matchs that didn't require an extra day Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Svidler qualified.
Mamedyarov is the only player left who hasn't required any rapid or blitz games to advance in the competition.
| Name | Country | Rating | Age | Classical 1 | Classical 2 | Name | Country | Rating | Age |
| Viktor Laznicka | CZE | 2637 | 21 | 0-1 | 0.5-0.5 | ShakhriyarMamedyarov | AZE | 2719 | 24 |
| SergeyKarjakin | UKR | 2723 | 19 | 0.5-0.5 | 1-0 | Nikita Vitiugov | RUS | 2694 | 22 |
| Alexei Shirov | ESP | 2719 | 37 | 0-1 | 0.5-0.5 | Peter Svidler | RUS | 2754 | 33 |
In the quarter-finals Gelfand will play Jakovenko and in an all-Russian tie, Svidler plays Malakhov. The other two matchs feature Ukrainians playing Azeris, Mamedyarov taking on Karjakin and Gashimov will face Ponomariov.
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