Biel R04: Ding Liren beats Vachier-Lagrave

GM Tournament in memoriam Olivier Breisacher

The GM tournament this year is in memory of Olivier Breisacher, who for more than 15 years looked after the organisation, reporting and external communications around the grandmasters tournament in Biel. The tournament is a ten-round double round robin, played from July 22nd to August 1st, with games starting at 2 p.m. local time.

Round four report

Summary of round four by GM Daniel King

These video summaries represent a pioneer effort by GM Daniel King and Pascal Simon to give us a feel for what has happened in each round of the Biel GM tournament. They require just three minutes of your time and should not be missed. We thank our team for providing them just hours after the rounds end.

Play of the day

Biel 2013 Round 4 Play of the Day - Ding Liren vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

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China's second highest ranked GM, Ding Liren, in action against ...

... French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, seen in a typical pose

Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi at minus one ...

... same as Richard Rapport, who still has to switch on the afterburners

Leaders with 2.5/4 points: French GM Etienne Bacrot ...

... and GM Alexander Moiseenko of Ukraine

Our commentator Daniel King watching the games with the audience

Current standings

Video analysis with the players

Biel 2013 Round 4 Ding Liren - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Ding to King in the postmortem: This is where he went wrong!

Biel 2013 Round 4 Richard Rapport - Ian Nepomniachtchi

Biel 2013 Round 4 Alexander Moiseenko - Etienne Bacrot

Photos by Pascal Simon for ChessBase

Schedule and results

Links Official tournament site All games in PGN The games will be broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase 12 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs.