4 to Round 4 Blitz tiebreaks, Gashimov. Malakhov & Ponomariov advance.

#2 seed Vugar Gashimov beat #50 seed Fabiano Caruana and #22 seed Viktor Malakhov took out #59 seed Wesley So in the Rapid tiebreaks to advance to round 5 and finally, Ruslan Ponomariov won his last rapid game to advance.  Now we are in the Blitz Tiebreaks, 2 games each (up to 10) with the last 4 playets vying to get into Round 5

Round 4 Blitz Tiebreak Games:

Game 1
3.5-3.5 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA) 1/2-1-2 Gelfand, Boris (ISR)
3-4 Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) 0-1 Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) 



Game 2
4.5-3.5 Gelfand, Boris (ISR) 1-0 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (FRA)
5-3 Jakovenko, Dmitry (RUS) 1-0 Grischuk, Alexander (RUS)
Alexander Grischuk is now in a hole! Need to win to stay alive.

Dmitry Jakovenko advances to round 5
Boris Gelfand advances to round 5

Those Already In Round 5:

2. Vugar Gashimov 2758 (AZE)
3. Peter Svidler 2754 (RUS)
7. Ruslan Ponomariov 2739 (UKR)
12 Sergey Karjakin 2723 (UKR)
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2719 (AZE)
22. Vladimir Malakhov 2706 (RUS)

GM Gelfand vs GM Vachier-Lagrave



GM Jakovenko vs GM Grischuk




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