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For some time Navara and Shankland followed a currently popular line in the English, in which Navara soom ambitiously pushed his kingside pawns ahead. But Shankland, who has written two excellent books about pawn play in modern chess (Small Steps to Giant Improvement: Master Pawn Play in Chess and Small Steps 2 Success: Mastering Passed Pawn Play) knew what to do and countered Navara's pawn push effectively and soon seized the initiative and developed a strong and successful counterattack.
David Navara | Photo: Vladimir Jagr
Jorden van Foreest is the winner of last year's Challenger at the Prague Chess Festival and since then he has become even stronger. At the beginning of the year he sensationally won the Tata Steel Tournament in which he started as a complete outsider. With a current Elo of 2701 he is the Dutch number two behind Anish Giri and number 38 in the world.
Against Radoslaw Wojtaszek he tried to win by soon liquidating into an endgame rook vs two minor pieces in a well-known line of the Nimzo-Indian but failed to achieve anything tangible.
The two other games also ended in a draw. After three rounds Shankland is sole leader with 2.5/3.
In the Open, rounds three and four were played on the same day. After four rounds six players share the lead with 3.5/4 each.
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | ||
| 1 |
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GM | Nasuta Grzegorz | 2512 | 3,5 | 9,0 |
| 2 |
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GM | Krzyzanowski Marcin | 2503 | 3,5 | 9,0 |
| 3 |
|
GM | Petr Martin | 2489 | 3,5 | 8,5 |
| 4 |
|
GM | Plat Vojtech | 2521 | 3,5 | 8,5 |
| 5 |
|
IM | Blohberger Felix | 2475 | 3,5 | 7,5 |
| 6 |
|
FM | Sorm Daniel | 2345 | 3,5 | 7,5 |
| 7 |
|
GM | Greenfeld Alon | 2507 | 3,0 | 9,0 |
| 8 |
|
IM | Kraus Tomas | 2466 | 3,0 | 9,0 |
| 9 |
|
FM | Finek Vaclav | 2359 | 3,0 | 8,5 |
| 10 |
|
FM | Sreyas Payyappat | 2303 | 3,0 | 8,0 |
| 11 |
|
FM | Seemann Jakub | 2305 | 3,0 | 8,0 |
| 12 |
|
FM | Hollan Petr | 2275 | 3,0 | 8,0 |
| 13 |
|
IM | Pavlidis Anastasios | 2333 | 3,0 | 8,0 |
| 14 |
|
Wachinger Nikolas | 2369 | 3,0 | 7,5 |
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