
The Magistral Ciutat d'Igualada is being held from August 16–21, in
a town just north-east of Barcelona, Spain. It is a double round robin with
Andrei Volokitin, Viktor Kortchnoi, Alexander Beliavsky and Luke McShane. The
official web site has portraits
of the four participants, small news reports (in Spanish) and a few pictures.
A few days ago we reported that Alexander Beliavsky was leading after four
rounds of this four-player double round robin. He was followed by veteran Viktor
Kortchnoi and youngster Luke McShane. Well, the 72-year-old Kortchnoi lost
his penultimate game to 19-year-old Andrei Volokitin and his last game to 21-year-old
Luke McShane, in both cases with the white pieces.


The public watching the two games in progress

Prize giving, with Volokitin, Korchnoi, Beliavsky and McShane (6-9 from
left)