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Round Four of Aerosvit Foros 2008

Karjakin, Carlsen and Van Wely scored wins

Annotated games:
Carlsen - Ivanchuk / Svidler - Carlsen / Nisipeanu - Ivanchuk / Carlsen - Van Wely
Eljanov-Carlsen

With today's win, Magnus Carlsen is only 0.6 points away from the 2nd place on FIDE rating list. See Hans Arild Runde's list for more details. Another junior, Sergey Karjakin, breaks into sole second place in Foros standings after beating Dmitry Jakovenko.

Round 4 results:
Van Wely, Loek 1 - 0 Alekseev, Evgeny
Eljanov, Pavel 0 - 1 Carlsen, Magnus
Svidler, Peter ½ - ½ Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
Ivanchuk, Vassily ½ - ½ Onischuk, Alexander
Karjakin, Sergey 1 - 0 Jakovenko, Dmitry
Shirov, Alexei ½ - ½ Volokitin, Andrei

Round 4 standings:
1. Magnus Carlsen 2765 - 3.5
2. Sergey Karjakin 2732 - 3.0
3. Alexei Shirov 2740 - 2.5
4-6. Pavel Eljanov 2687, Andrei Volokitin 2684 and Vassily Ivanchuk 2740 - 2.0
7-12. Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 2684, Dmitry Jakovenko 2711, Evgeny Alekseev 2711, Alexander Onischuk 2664, Peter Svidler 2746 and Loek Van Wely 2676 - 1.5

Photos:
Round 1 / More on the tournament website