Elista Grand Prix 2008 Round 4 and 5 results

GM WANG YUE

Round 4 in Elista, Russia's FIDE Grand Prix event finished yesterday, here are the results and standings after round 4 with today's round 5 pairings. Today's pairings will be updated today as they finish, there are already some results in from the round. A note I missed, I don't know if GM Wang Yue had played and lost before this event, but he had a rather large streak of being unbeaten, last I saw it was in the 80+ game range, (this include draws of course, just not losing a game), until Round 1 when GM Dmitry Jakovenko beat GM Wang Yue, however, this streak propelled him into the 2700's, among the elite players. Nothing to sneeze at, that's for sure!

Round 4 results, 17th December 2008

Kasimzhanov Rustam 2672 0-1 Alexeev Evgeny 2715
Wang Yue 2736 1-0 Eljanov Pavel 2720
Akopian Vladimir 2679 0.5-0.5 Gashimov Vugar 2703
Grischuk Alexander 2719 0.5-0.5 Inarkiev Ernesto 2669
Cheparinov Ivan 2696 0.5-0.5 Jakovenko Dmitry 2737
Bacrot Etienne 2705 1-0 Leko Peter 2747
Radjabov Teimour 2751 0.5-0.5 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731


GM Wang Yue vs GM Pavel Eljanov Round 4



Another win by the rising star from China.



Round 5 results, 18th December 2008

Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2731 0.5-0.5 Kasimzhanov Rustam 2672
Leko Peter 2747 0.5-0.5 Radjabov Teimour 2751
Jakovenko Dmitry 2737 0.5-0.5 Bacrot Etienne 2705
Inarkiev Ernesto 2669 0-1 Cheparinov Ivan 2696
Gashimov Vugar 2703 1-0 Grischuk Alexander 2719
Eljanov Pavel 2720 0.5-0.5 Akopian Vladimir 2679
Alexeev Evgeny 2715 0.5-0.5 Wang Yue 2736

(pairings and Round 4 results Courtesy of Chessdom.com, a great chess news site)

Here's a quick win by Bulgaria's GM Ivan Cheparinov

GM Ernesto Inarkiev vs GM Ivan Cheparinov



Round 5 Standings:

1-2 3.5

GM Teimour Radjabov AZE 2751
GM Vugar Gashimov AZE 2703

3 3.0

GM Dmitry Jakovenko RUS 2737

4-9 2.5

GM Alexander Grischuk RUS 2719
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2731
GM Evgeny Alekseev RUS 2715
GM Wang Yue CHN 2736
GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2705
GM Vladimir Akopian ARM 2679

10-13 2.0

GM Ernesto Inarkiev RUS 2669
GM Peter Leko HUN 2747
GM Pavel Eljanov UKR 2720
GM Ivan Cheparinov BUL 2696

14 1.5

GM Ruslan Kasimdzhanov UZB 2672