Aronian and Karjakin win

Sergey Karjakin

After starting with two losses, Sergey Karjakin has won his second game in a row. The other winner was Levon Aronian who has now caught Magnus Carlsen and shares the lead. In the C-tournament Maxim Turov still has a perfect 4/4, and Pentala Harikrishna is still ahead in the B-Group.

Here is the summary of the fourth round games:

Group-A:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating	Moves	Opening
Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2766	½-½	Loek Van Wely	NED	2692	36	Catalan
Anish Giri	NED	2714	½-½	Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2759	18	Sicilian Dragon
Levon Aronian	ARM	2805	1-0	Gata Kamsky	USA	2732	58	Grünfeld Defence
Veselin Topalov	BUL	2770	½-½	Vugar Gashimov	AZE	2761	55	Slav
Boris Gelfand	ISR	2739	½-½	Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2773	30	King's Indian Defence
Fabiano Caruana	ITA	2736	½-½	Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2835	34	Spanish Berlin
David Navara	CZE	2712	0-1	Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2769	60	Spanish Berlin

The points tally:

Seed	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen	21	NOR	2835	1	3
2	Levon Aronian	29	ARM	2805	2	3
3	Teimour Radjabov	24	AZE	2773	5	2.5
4	Veselin Topalov	36	BUL	2770	6	2
5	Sergey Karjakin	22	RUS	2769	7	2
6	Vassily Ivanchuk	42	UKR	2766	8	2
7	Vugar Gashimov	25	AZE	2761	10	1.5
8	Hikaru Nakamura	24	USA	2759	12	1.5
9	Boris Gelfand	43	ISR	2739	16	1.5
10	Fabiano Caruana	19	ITA	2736	17	2.5
11	Gata Kamsky	37	USA	2732	20	1.5
12	Anish Giri	17	NED	2714	28	2
13	David Navara	26	CZE	2712	30	1
14	Loek Van Wely	39	NED	2692	54	2

The top two seeds share the lead after four rounds.

Group-B:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Lazaro Bruzon	CUB	2691	½-½	Kateryna Lahno	UKR	2557
Dimitri Reinderman	NED	2581	½-½	Harika Dronavalli	IND	2516
Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2665	½-½	Viktorija Cmilyte	LTU	2503
Sipke Ernst	NED	2606	1-0	Erwin L'Ami	NED	2606
Daniele Vocaturo	ITA	2545	½-½	Jan Timman	NED	2568
Illya Nyzhnyk	UKR	2568	½-½	Vladimir Potkin	RUS	2684
Alexander Motylev	RUS	2677	1-0	Sergei Tiviakov	NED	2677

The points so far:

Rk	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Lazaro Bruzon Batista	29	CUB	2691	55	1.5
2	Vladimir Potkin	29	RUS	2684	65	1.5
3	Sergei Tiviakov	38	NED	2677	70	2
4	Alexander Motylev	32	RUS	2677	72	2.5
5	Pentala Harikrishna	25	IND	2665	82	3.5
6	Sipke Ernst	33	NED	2606	-	1.5
7	Erwin L'Ami	26	NED	2596	-	2.5
8	Dimitri Reinderman	39	NED	2581	-	2
9	Jan Timman	60!	NED	2571	-	2
10	Illya Nyzhnyk	15	UKR	2568	-	2
11	Kateryna Lahno	22	UKR	2557	5w	2
12	Daniele Vocaturo	22	ITA	2545	-	2
13	Dronavalli Harika	21	IND	2516	11w	1.5
14	Viktorija Cmilyte	28	LTU	2503	16w	1.5

Harikrishna leads by a full point.

Group-C:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Tania Sachdev	IND	2411	0-1	Elisabeth Paehtz	GER	2454
Matthew Sadler	ENG	2660	½-½	Daan Brandenburg	NED	2527
Sahaj Grover	IND	2532	0-1	Baskaran Adhiban	IND	2561
Hans Tikkanen	SWE	2549	1-0	Etienne Goudriaan	NED	2279
Lars Ootes	NED	2326	1-0	Elina Danielian	ARM	2490
Anne Haast	NED	2290	0-1	Maxim Turov	RUS	2645
Pieter Hopman	NED	2342	0-1	Lisa Schut	NED	2290