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Masters Round 4 Report

Jan 25, 2020

John Saunders reports: Round four of the 2020 Gibraltar Masters took place on Friday 24 January 2020 at the Caleta Hotel. We now have a sole leader, Ivan Cheparinov (Georgia), who won his game with Maksim Chigaev (Russia) to reach the perfect score of 4/4. Twelve players are on 3½: Mikhail Antipov (Russia), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Parham Maghsoodloo (Iran), Wang Hao (China), Gregory Kaidanov (USA), Andrey Esipenko (Russia), Jan Werle (Netherlands), Vasif Durarbayli (Azerbaijan), David Paravyan (Russia), Pier Luigi Basso (Italy), SL Narayanan (India) and Leandro Krysa (Argentina). The leading female competitors are Bela Khotenashvili (Georgia) and Zhansaya Abdumalik (Kazakhstan) on 3 points.