Tata Steel Chess Round 4: Levon Aronian leads

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The fourth round of the Master’s Section was played in the famous Rijksmusem in Amsterdam.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam in Amsterdam

The museum went through a renovation period of 10 years and was opened for public on the 13th of April last year. Here is a fun video which shows a real-life enactment of the museum’s most famous work, Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’.

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True to the spirit of the venue, Dominguez played a brilliant artistic endgame to overcome Caruana’s stiff resistance. Nakamura crumbled rather quickly in a passive endgame against Aronian while Karjakin crushed an out-of-sorts Rapport.

The fourth round in the Challenger’s section was played a day earlier which was a rest day for the players in the Master’s section. It seemed like the players had forgotten the result called ‘draw’ as they went for each other’s throats to produce a decisive round with four white wins and three black wins.

You can replay the games here.

Standings:

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Players

Score

Rating

TPR

1

Aronian, L.

3.0 / 4

2812

2935

2

Harikrishna, P.

2.5 / 4

2706

2844

3

Karjakin, S.

2.5 / 4

2759

2808

4

So, W.

2.5 / 4

2719

2828

5

Giri, A.

2.5 / 4

2734

2811

6

Dominguez, L.

2.0 / 4

2754

2724

7

Caruana, F.

2.0 / 4

2782

2776

8

Nakamura, H.

2.0 / 4

2789

2757

9

Van Wely, L.

1.5 / 4

2672

2651

10

Rapport, R.

1.5 / 4

2691

2680

11

Naiditsch, A.

1.0 / 4

2718

2562

12

Gelfand, B.

1.0 / 4

2777

2552

Results:

Masters

White

Black

Result

1

Van Wely, L. (1) 2672

Harikrishna (2) 2706

½-½

2

Karjakin, S. (1½) 2759

Rapport, R. (1½) 2691

1-0

3

Dominguez . (1) 2754

Caruana, F. (2) 2782

1-0

4

Aronian, L. (2) 2812

Nakamura, H. (2) 2789

1-0

5

Gelfand, B. (0½) 2777

Naiditsch (0½) 2718

½-½

6

Giri, Anish (2) 2734

So, Wesley (2) 2719

½-½

Challengers

White

Black

Result

1

Timman, Jan (1) 2607

Brunello, S. (1½) 2602

1-0

2

Troff, K. (1½) 2457

Saric, Ivan (2) 2637

0-1

3

Zhao, Xue (1½) 2567

Bok, B. (2½) 2560

1-0

4

Duda, J. (2) 2553

Muzychuk, A. (2) 2566

0-1

5

Jobava, B. (2½) 2710

Van Delft (1) 2430

1-0

6

Reinderman (1½) 2593

Yu, Yangyi (1) 2677

1-0

7

Goudriaan (0) 2431

Wojtaszek (1) 2711

0-1

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