Dortmund Rd4: Caruana continues his rout

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7/16/2014 – Despite having three prestigious previous winners, Fabiano Caruana continues his rout of the field with a win in round four. This takes him to 3.5/4 and a 3000+ performance, but more importantly permits him to leapfrog Grischuk to take third on the live ratings list. The king of Dortmund, Vladimir Kramnik, has been unable to recover his form after his opening loss. Round four report.

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The traditional Dortmund Sparkassen Tournament is now under way in Dortmund, Germany. The event is being held at the Orchestra Center and it features three of the top German players alongside five foreign grandmasters.

Round four

Round 04 – July 16, 2014 15:00h
Caruana, Fabiano 1-0 Meier, Georg
Naiditsch, Arkadij ½-½ Kramnik, Vladimir
Adams, Michael ½-½ Ponomariov, Ruslan
Baramidze, David ½-½ Leko, Peter

The shadow of the Italian's win only appeared after 30 moves against Georg Meier's solid French Defense. He had obtained nothing, and after some shuffling seemed headed to a draw when the German lost his footing and suddenly was staring a mate in the face.

David Baramidze seemed to have a number of weaknesses to exploit, such as gaping dark squares and a backward c-pawn, but was unable to make the stalwart Leko even break a sweat, and they drew. Vladimir Kramnik played his pet Berlin against Arkadij Naiditsch and a typical queenless middlegame ensued with a lot of maneuvering, but ultimately neither player was able to show anything for it. Seeing Ruslan Ponomariov getting ready for a Berlin of his own, Michael Adams chose a sideline that kept the queens on the board. His efforts paid off as the Ukrainian was quite lost after a blunder on move 32, but the Englishman was unable to find the coup-de-grâce, and blundered back his winning advantage for a disappointing draw.

Round four games

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1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bc5 9.Qd2 0-0 10.0-0-0 a6 11.Qf2 Bxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.Be3 Qa5 14.Kb1 b4 15.Ne2 Qc7 16.Nd4 Nxd4 17.Bxd4 a5 18.Bb5 Ba6 19.Bxd7 Qxd7 20.g4 a4 21.b3 Qc6 22.f5 Bb5 23.Rd2 axb3 24.cxb3 Ra3 25.Re1 Rfa8 26.Re3 Rc8 27.Qe1 Rc7 28.Qd1 Ra8 29.Re1 Rac8 30.Qf3 Qa6 31.Red1 Qa3 32.Bb2 Qa6 33.Qe3 Kh8 34.f6 gxf6 35.exf6 Rg8 36.g5 h6 37.Rg1 Rcc8 38.g6 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Caruana,F2789Meier,G26321–02014C11Sparkassen-Chess-Meeting 20144
Adams,M2743Ponomariov,R2723½–½2014C65Sparkassen-Chess-Meeting 20144
Naiditsch,A2705Kramnik,V2777½–½2014C67Sparkassen-Chess-Meeting 20144
Baramidze,D2616Leko,P2737½–½2014E05Sparkassen-Chess-Meeting 20144

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