Baden-Baden catch Saint Petersburg

Baden-Baden top board (official site)

Four teams have won their opening quartet of matches, but of these Saint Petersburg (Peter Svidler on 1) and Baden-Baden (led by Michael Adams) have the highest number of board points. In the Women's event, Timisoara are sole leader after winning their four matches.

Here are the leading tables in the fourth round:

SHSM beat Ugra 3.5-2.5 despite Boris Gelfand's defeat. In a similar fashion, Tomsk beat Ekonomist by the same score, even though Ponomariov lost on board one.

Alexei Shirov and Etienne Bacrot were the winners in Baden-Baden's 4-2 victory, whereas Saint Petersburg edged out Bosna Sarajevo due to Vadim Zvjaginsev's win.

Match board	Seed title	White (on odds)		Score	Seed title	Black (on odds, white on evens)
1	6	Ugra		2½ - 3½	2	SHSM-64
1	GM	Jakovenko Dmitry	2716	1 : 0	GM	Gelfand Boris	2746
2	GM	Rublevsky Sergei	2681	0 : 1	GM	Wang Hao	2733
3	GM	Malakhov Vladimir	2710	½:½	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2712
4	GM	Dreev Aleksey	2711	½:½	GM	Giri Anish	2722
5	GM	Zhigalko Sergei	2696	0 : 1	GM	Riazantsev Alexander	2688
6	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	2627	½:½	GM	Potkin Vladimir	2671
2	3	Ekonomist SGSEU Saratov		2½ - 3½	7	Tomsk-400
1	GM	Tomashevsky Evgeny	2710	1 : 0	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2758
2	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2718	½:½	GM	Motylev Alexander	2690
3	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2683	½:½	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	2692
4	GM	Andreikin Dmitry	2705	½:½	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2672
5	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2726	0 : 1	GM	Bologan Viktor	2657
6	GM	Alekseev Evgeny	2662	0 : 1	GM	Khismatullin Denis	2635
3	4	Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation		3½ - 2½	11	Bosna Sarajevo
1	GM	Svidler Peter	2740	½:½	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2706
2	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2726	½:½	GM	Ragger Markus	2655
3	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2715	½:½	GM	Predojevic Borki	2643
4	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2703	½:½	GM	Nikolic Predrag	2636
5	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	2666	1 : 0	IM	Stojanovic Dalibor	2466
6	GM	Matlakov Maxim	2630	½:½	IM	Kadric Denis	2403
4	5	OSG Baden Baden		4 - 2	9	Mika
1	GM	Adams Michael	2733	½:½	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2658
2	GM	Shirov Alexei	2713	1 : 0	GM	Petrosian Tigran L	2649
3	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2705	1 : 0	GM	Melkumyan Hrant	2619
4	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2707	½:½	GM	Pashikian Arman	2618
5	GM	Nielsen Peter Heine	2687	½:½	GM	Andriasian Zaven	2615
6	GM	Gustafsson Jan	2631	½:½	GM	Grigoryan Avetik	2614
5	1	SOCAR		5½ - ½	25	SF Reichenstein
1	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2752	1 : 0	IM	Heimann Andreas	2485
2	GM	Sutovsky Emil	2690	1 : 0	IM	Volke Karsten	2448
3	GM	Volokitin Andrei	2686	1 : 0	IM	Drabke Lorenz Maximilian	2463
4	GM	Kasimdzhanov Rustam	2678	1 : 0	IM	Maier Christian	2352
5	GM	Mamedov Rauf	2660	1 : 0		Lutz Bernhard	2307
6	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2627	½:½	FM	Riff Vincent	2342
6	8	A DAN DZO & PGMB		4½ - 1½	18	Oslo Schakselskap
1	GM	Jobava Baadur	2712	½:½	GM	Hammer Jon Ludvig	2601
2	GM	Korobov Anton	2671	1 : 0	GM	Berg Emanuel	2575
3	GM	Kryvoruchko Yuriy	2666	½:½	GM	Johannessen Leif Erlend	2499
4	GM	Azarov Sergei	2648	½:½	IM	Getz Nicolai	2391
5	GM	Guseinov Gadir	2626	1 : 0	FM	Moen Andreas	2373
6	GM	Savchenko Boris	2630	1 : 0	FM	Kovachev Daniel Jakobsen	2332
7	34	Tammer-Shakki		1 - 5	10	G-Team Novy Bor
1	IM	Karttunen Mika	2423	½:½	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2701
2	FM	Mertanen Janne	2369	0 : 1	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2704
3		Koykka Pekka	2217	0 : 1	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2627
4	FM	Kytoniemi Jyrki	2283	0 : 1	GM	Hracek Zbynek	2624
5		Sisatto Olli	2236	½:½	GM	Markos Jan	2596
6		Kiltti Jyrki	2271	0 : 1	GM	Cvek Robert	2518
8	12	ZSK Maribor		2½ - 3½	17	Lunds ASK
1	GM	Lenic Luka	2641	0 : 1	GM	Tikkanen Hans	2591
2	GM	Jankovic Alojzije	2584	½:½	GM	Grandelius Nils	2536
3	GM	Skoberne Jure	2547	0 : 1	IM	Smith Axel	2488
4	GM	Kozul Zdenko	2541	1 : 0	IM	Bejtovic Jasmin	2425
5	IM	Sebenik Matej	2529	½:½	IM	Lund Silas	2380
6	IM	Sakelsek Tadej	2407	½:½	FM	Nilsson Sebastian	2362
9	15	Vesnianka Gran		4 - 2	31	SF Berlin
1	GM	Zhigalko Andrey	2555	1 : 0	IM	Lauber Arnd	2464
2	GM	Teterev Vitaly	2519	1 : 0	GM	Polzin Rainer	2469
3	GM	Podolchenko Evgeniy	2474	1 : 0	FM	Wintzer Joachim Dr	2332
4	GM	Tihonov Jurij	2448	½:½	FM	Lundin Jan	2276
5	IM	Mochalov Evgeny V	2379	½:½		Glantz Robert	2259
6	GM	Stupak Kirill	2516	0 : 1	FM	Nogly Christoph	2231
10	24	SG Zurich		2½ - 3½	16	SD Tehcenter Ptuj
1	GM	Pelletier Yannick	2584	½:½	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	2616
2	GM	Korchnoi Viktor	2556	½:½	GM	Pavasovic Dusko	2561
3	GM	Vogt Lothar	2410	½:½	GM	Borisek Jure	2534
4	FM	Goldstern Filip	2319	½:½	IM	Polajzer Danilo	2293
5	FM	Friedrich Norbert	2311	½:½	FM	Podkriznik Gregor	2332
6	FM	Vucenovic Dragomir	2262	0 : 1	FM	Roskar Robert	2290

The table of the leading teams.

Rank	Team	+	-	Match points	Board points	Typical Top board
1	Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation	4	0	8	20½	Peter Svidler
2	OSG Baden Baden	4	0	8	20½	Michael Adams
3	SHSM-64	4	0	8	18½	Boris Gelfand
4	Tomsk-400	4	0	8	18	Ruslan Ponomariov
5	Ekonomist SGSEU Saratov	3	1	6	19	Evgeny Tomashevsky
6	SOCAR	3	1	6	19	Alexander Grischuk
7	Ugra	3	1	6	17½	Dmitry Jakovenko
8	G-Team Novy Bor	3	1	6	17½	Viktor Laznicka
9	Mika	3	1	6	17	Gabriel Sargissian
10	A DAN DZO & PGMB	3	1	6	16½	Baadur Jobava
11	Glasinac Sokolac	3	1	6	16½	Dragan Solak
12	Vesnianka Gran	3	1	6	16	Andrey Zhigalko
13	Bosna Sarajevo	3	1	6	15½	Ferenc Berkes
14	Beer Sheba	3	1	6	15½	Alexander Huzman
15	SD Tehcenter Ptuj	3	1	6	14	Alexander Beliavsky
16	Lunds ASK	3	1	6	13	Hans Tikkanen

In the women's championship the matches featuring the stronger teams were quite tight.

Anotoaneta beat Hou Yifan in AVS's victory over Monaco.

Match	Seed	Team (white on odds)	MP	Score	MP	Team (black on odds)	Seed
1	3	Mika	6	1½ - 2½	6	AEM Luxten Timisoara	4
2	2	AVS	4	2½ - 1½	4	Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo	1
3	5	SHSM-RGSU	4	2 - 2	4	Giprorechtrans	6
4	7	BAS	2	3 - 1	2	Oslo Schakselskap	11
5	9	ZSK Maribor	2	1 - 3	2	Anatolia	10
6	8	CS R. Fischer Chieti	0			Bye

The table now looks as follows.

Rank	Team	+	-	=	Match points	Board points
1	AEM Luxten Timisoara	4	0	0	8	13
2	Mika	3	1	0	6	11½
3	AVS	3	1	0	6	9½
4	SHSM-RGSU	2	1	1	5	9½
5	Giprorechtrans	2	1	1	5	8
6	Cercle d'Echecs de Monte-Carlo	2	2	0	4	10½
7	BAS	2	2	0	4	8½
8	Anatolia	2	2	0	4	5½
9	CS R. Fischer Chieti	1	3	0	2	4½
10	ZSK Maribor	1	3	0	2	4½
11	Oslo Schakselskap	1	3	0	2	3

Romanian team Timisoara are now the only team with four match victories.

After losing a second match, favourites Monaco seem well out of contention.

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