Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Congress 2011 - Short, Nadezhda in joint lead after four rounds

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Victoria Cmilyte and Nadezhda Kosintseva

Hi everyone,


The news from the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2011 is that Nigel Short and Nadezhda Kosintseva are leading with a perfect score of 4.0 in four rounds. In fact, there was a four-way lead up to Round 3. But Nigel Short beat Deep Sengupta and Nadezhda Kosintseva beat Victoria Cmilyte. The two leaders would now face each other in the fifth round. Meanwhile, Vassily Ivanchuk also won a nice Rook-sac game against Viktor Erdos.


Here are the top standings after Round 4.

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1
1	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2658	4.0	3308
2	IM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	RUS	2552	4.0	3231
3	GM	Rapport Richard	HUN	2531	3.5	2914
4	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2764	3.5	2873
5	GM	Fridman Daniel	GER	2655	3.5	2846
6	GM	Kotronias Vasilios	GRE	2599	3.5	2749
7	GM	Korchnoi Viktor	SUI	2544	3.0	2772
8	GM	Sengupta Deep	IND	2530	3.0	2748
9	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2690	3.0	2737
10	GM	Felgaer Ruben	ARG	2585	3.0	2728
11	GM	Zhu Chen	QAT	2495	3.0	2723
12	GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	LTU	2526	3.0	2722
13	GM	Adams Michael	ENG	2723	3.0	2709
14	GM	Buhmann Rainer	GER	2572	3.0	2706
15	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2577	3.0	2683
16	GM	Roiz Michael	ISR	2649	3.0	2678
17	GM	Harikrishna Pentala	IND	2667	3.0	2674
18	GM	Akobian Varuzhan	USA	2618	3.0	2666
19	GM	Sandipan Chanda	IND	2641	3.0	2662
20	GM	Lafuente Pablo	ARG	2551	3.0	2635
21	GM	Gopal Geetha Narayanan	IND	2597	3.0	2634
	IM	Krush Irina	USA	2483	3.0	2634
23	GM	Caruana Fabiano	ITA	2721	3.0	2633
24	GM	Georgiev Kiril	BUL	2669	3.0	2616
	GM	Kacheishvili Giorgi	GEO	2585	3.0	2616
26	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	RUS	2570	3.0	2568
27	IM	Zatonskih Anna	USA	2493	3.0	2564
28	GM	Ikonnikov Vyacheslav	RUS	2580	3.0	2555
29	GM	Kanep Meelis	EST	2531	3.0	2551
30	GM	Mikhalevski Victor	ISR	2579	3.0	2524
31		Vaarala Eric	SWE	2152	3.0	2508
32	GM	Lemos Damian	ARG	2553	3.0	2463
33	GM	Robson Ray	USA	2532	3.0	2446

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