Vladislav Artemyev became the sole leader in the superfinal of the 76th Russian Chess Championship in Pushkin after the fourth round on October 4; The results of the round were published on the specialized chess results server chess-results.com.
Results of the fourth round matches: Ponkratov – Matlakov 0.5:0.5; Esipenko – Timofeev 0.5:0.5; Naer-Murzin 0.5:0.5; Goryachkina – Lagno 0.5:0.5; Artemyev – Rozum 1:0; Tomashevsky – Sychev 1:0.
The tournament standings are headed by Vladislav Artemyev with 3.5 points out of 4. Evgeniy Nayer is half a point behind. Alexandra Goryachkina scored 2.5 points.
Let us remind that the Superfinal of the 76th Russian Chess Championship will be held in the State Museum-Reserve “Tsarskoe Selo” (St. Petersburg, Pushkin) from October 1 to 12 in the round-robin system with classical time control. Participants in the tournament: Vladislav Artemyev (FIDE rating 2697), Andrey Esipenko (2683), Evgeniy Tomashevsky (2694), Maxim Matlakov (2674), Evgeniy Naer (2648), Pavel Ponkratov (2595), Volodar Murzin (2633), Artem Timofeev (2576), Alexandra Goryachkina (2558), Klementy Sychev (2552), Ekaterina Lagno (2546), Ivan Rozum (2531). The guaranteed prize fund of the competition is 7,000,000 rubles, including the 1st place prize – 1,100,000 rubles.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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