Tal Memorial: Aronian leads ranking table
Our readers have already been informed that Levon Aronian ended his set with Azerbaijani Shahriyar Mamediarov in draw in the fourth round of Tal Memorial held in Moscow. Having scored half point, Aronian currently has 3 points and leads the ranking table. Other sets of the same round ended in draw as Gelfand shared points with Grishchuk, Karjakin with Shirov, Hao with Eljanov and Nakamura with Kramnik.
Karjakin, Hao, Mamedyarov, Nakamura and Grishchuk all have 2,5 points and share 2-6 horizontals; Kramnik scored 2, Gelfand – 1,5, Eljanov and Shirov – 0,5.
Shahriyar Mamedyarov – Levon Aronian 0,5:0,5
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qc2 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bf5 6. g3 e6 7. Bg2 Be7 8. O-O O-O 9. Rd1 Nbd7 10. e3 e5 11. Nc3 Qc7 12. h3 Rfe8 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 Qxe5 15. e4 Be6 16. Qe2 Bb4 17. f4 Qa5 18. Be3 Rad8 19. Qf2 Rxd1+ 20. Rxd1 Bxc3 21. bxc3 Qa4 22. Rd4 Bc4 23. Qd2 c5 24. Rd8 Rxd8 25. Qxd8+ Qe8 26. Qd6 b6 27. e5 Qd7 28. Qb8+ Ne8 29. Qa8 Kf8 30. a3 Qd3 31. Bf2 Qd1+ 32. Kh2 Qc2 33. Kg1 Qd1+ 34. Kh2 Qc2 35. Kg1 1/2:1/2:
5th round 10.11.2010
Alexander Grishchuk-Shahriyar Mamedyarov
Levon Aronyan-Sergey Karjakin
Aleksey Shirov-Hicaru Nakamura
Pavel Eljanov-Boris Gelfand
Vladimir Kramnik-Wang Hao