Carlsen's sensational recovery continues from his opening day 0/2 against Ivanchuk.
Tuesday's Blindfold results:
Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 2813 | 1-0 | Jan Smeets | NED | 2651 |
Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 2748 | 0.5-0.5 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 2782 |
Peter Svidler | RUS | 2750 | 0-1 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2725 |
Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2750 | 1-0 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2790 |
Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 2748 | 0.5-0.5 | Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 2740 |
Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2756 | 1-0 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | CUB | 2713 |
After the fourth round of blindfold games Carlsen, Ivanchuk and Grischuk have 3/4, all demonstrating their strength at this discipline.
Tuesday's rapid games:
Black scored a remarkable 5-1 in this evening's games and Carlsen and Ivanchuk now lead the rapidplay event.
Carlsen's 2-0 today was also repeated by Gelfand over Kramnik(!) and by Grischuk over Dominguez.
Jan Smeets | NED | 2651 | 0-1 | Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 2813 |
Levon Aronian | ARM | 2782 | 0-1 | Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 2748 |
Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2725 | 0-1 | Peter Svidler | RUS | 2750 |
Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2790 | 0-1 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2750 |
Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 2740 | 1-0 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 2748 |
Leinier Dominguez Perez | CUB | 2713 | 0-1 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2756 |
Ivanchuk is the only unbeaten player and Carlsen is alone in not having made at least one draw.
Ponomariov slips to fifth after losing his match against Gashimov, whereas Grischuk and Gelfand move up two places to equal third.
At the bottom Dominguez and Smeets are losing touch with the rest of the field.
Ranking | Seed | Name | Country | Rating | Rapidplay Total | Blindfold Total | Overall Total |
1= | 7 | Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 2748 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
1= | 1 | Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 2813 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
3= | 4 | Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2756 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
3= | 6 | Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2750 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 5 |
5 | 9 | Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR | 2748 | 2 | 2.5 | 4.5 |
6 | 2 | Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2790 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 4 |
7= | 3 | Levon Aronian | ARM | 2782 | 2 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
7= | 5 | Peter Svidler | RUS | 2750 | 2 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
7= | 10 | Sergey Karjakin | RUS | 2725 | 1 | 2.5 | 3.5 |
7= | 8 | Vugar Gashimov | AZE | 2740 | 1.5 | 2 | 3.5 |
11 | 11 | Leinier Dominguez Perez | CUB | 2713 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 2 |
12 | 12 | Jan Smeets | NED | 2651 | 1 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
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