Round 4 Rapid Tiebreak Game 1 of possible 4 games at 25 mins +10 sec. inc. if still tied after these games, then follows a series of Blitz games, a Match of 2 Games at 5 mins +3 sec. inc. (Max. of 10 games) if after 2 games of standard chess, 4 games of rapid chess and 10 games of blitz chess, THEN it comes down to.....
Armageddon! Players draw lots for an important decision, whether to take White with 5 minutes and HAVE to win the game OR take black with 4 minutes on the clock and HOLD A DRAW with the time handicap to win the Armageddon game, there's only 1 game, so far it hasn't come to that in any of the rounds yet.
Round 4 Rapid Game 1
- 1.0-1.0 17. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2718 (FRA) * 1. Boris Gelfand 2758 (ISR)
- 1.0-1.0 8. Alexander Grischuk 2736 (RUS) * 9. Dmitry Jakovenko 2736 (RUS)
- 1.0-1.0 2. Vugar Gashimov 2758 (AZE) * 50. Fabiano Caruana 2652 (ITA)
- 1.0-1.0 23. Etienne Bacrot 2700 (FRA) * 7. Ruslan Ponomariov 2739 (UKR)
- 1.0-1.0 59. Wesley So 2640 (PHI) * 22. Vladimir Malakhov 2706 (RUS)
3. Peter Svidler 2754 (RUS)
12 Sergey Karjakin 2723 (UKR)
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2719 (AZE)
The lowest seeds still hanging in there are 59. Wesley So, 50. Fabiano Caruana and seeds 1 and 2 are still at risk of getting upset, seed 1 being Boris Gelfand 2758 and 2 Vugar Gashimov 2758 as well, it seems they weren't picked alphabetically but seeds 8 & 9 both rated 2736, Alexander Grischuk and Dmitry Jakovenko are seeded alphabetically. Who knows, FIDE works in mysterious ways ;-)
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