Publishing Pairings of the Round 5 Game 1. Round starts at 3 PM September, 15 2017. WHITE FED. TITLE RATING vs BLACK FED. TITLE RATING Svidler Peter GM 2751 Vachier-Lagrave Maxime GM 2789 Fedoseev Vladimir GM 2731 So Wesley GM 2810 Rapport Richard GM 2675 Ding Liren GM 2777 Aronian Levon GM 2799 Ivanchuk Vassily GM 2728

The fourth round tie-breaks started with 5 matches on the 14th of September at 3 pm local time. After two rapid games 4 encounters were over. Georgian chess legends Maia Chiburdanidze and Nona Gaprindashvili as well as many chess fans came to support their local hero Baadur Jobava but his opponent Wesley So won the [...]

The second games of the fourth round of the World Cup were completed in the Hualing Hotel in Tbilisi. Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Anish Giri, Chinese derby finished with a victory of higher rated Ding Liren, Levon Aronian outplayed Daniil Dubov. Therefore, Aronian will play against Ivanchuk in the next round, while Ding Liren will know [...]

Pairings for Round 4 Tie-Breaks. Tie Break games start at 3PM local time on September, 14 2017. Location: Hualing Hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia. WHITE FED. TITLE RATING vs BLACK FED. TITLE RATING Bu, Xiangzhi GM 2714 Svidler, Peter GM 2756 So, Wesley GM 2792 Jobava, Baadur GM 2702 Najer, Evgeniy GM 2694 Rapport, Richard [...]

Only 16 out of 128 participants remained in the World Cup in Tbilisi. In the first game of the fourth round Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Anish Giri, while Vladimir Fedoseev outplayed Maxim Rodshtein. All other six games finished in a draw. Anish Giri went for the position with opposite-side castling and both players seemed ready for [...]