Tata Steel Chess R4: Aronian wins to join Carlsen in lead

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Hi everyone,

Are you tuning in to the great chess action at the Tata Steel Chess in Wijk Aan Zee every day? Round 4 was an equally exciting one. Levon Aronian won a fine game to rejoin Magnus Carlsen in the lead. Here is all the information along with the nice game.

Round four
Group A: Round 4 - Tues. Jan. 17th
Veselin Topalov - Vugar Gashimov ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk - Loek van Wely ½-½
Levon Aronian - Gata Kamsky 1-0
Fabiano Caruana - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Anish Giri - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½
David Navara - Sergey Karjakin 0-1
Boris Gelfand - Teimour Radjabov ½-½

Aronian,L (2805) - Kamsky,G (2732)

Result: 1-0

Site: Wijk aan Zee NED

Date: 2012.01.17

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