Aronian and Leko scored 3 points after 4 rounds and kept leading position in the tournament table.
Armenian grandmaster Vladimir Akopian played a draw in 4-round of 5th Grand Prix, held in Jermuk, with the Kazakh players Rustam Kasymjanov. In all 4 rounds Armenian grandmaster played draws with his rivals.
Party of 4th round:
Levon Aronian – Gat Kamsky – 1:0
Dmitry Yakovenko – Boris Gelfand – 0,5:0,5
Ernesto Inarkiev – Ivan Cheparinov – 0,5:0,5
Peter Leko – Sergey Karjakin – 1:0
Vladimir Akopian – Rustam Kasymjanov – 0,5:0,5
Etienne Bacrot – Paul Elyanov – 0,5:0,5
Vassily Ivanchuk – Evgeny Alekseev – 1:0
Tournament position after 4 rounds: Aronian, Leko – 3; Ivanchuk, Cheparinov – 2.5; Hakopyan, Yakovenko, Bacrot, Elyanov, Gelfand, Kasymjanov – 2; Karjakin, Alekseev, – 1,5, Kamsky, Inarkiev – 1.
