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Aronian Standing Tal

At the Tal Memorial in Moscow, Levon Aronian holds the sole lead at the midpoint by virtue of two mightily impressive wins with White over tough-nuts-to-crack Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand - and two games that proved easy pickings for expert analysis by GM Yasser Seirawan for his GOTD selections (see table below - members only).

Performance-wise, the Armenian No 1 has hit a purple patch. The new official FIDE rating list came out at the beginning of the month with Vishy Anand first on 2804 ahead of Magnus Carlsen 2802 and Aronian 2801, making him only the sixth player - after Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Topalov and Carlsen - to join the exclusive club of those who have crossed the 2800 mark.

And he continues to climb further on Hans Arild Runde's unofficial live rating list to 2809 (behind Carlsen on 2812), as he stands tall at the Tal Memorial to lead on 3/4, a half point ahead of the chasing pack of Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Nakamura, Karjakin and Wang Hao.

There will be further extended live coverage of the second half of the Tal Memorial each day here on Chess.FM, featuring GM Yasser Seirawan as host with GMs Larry Christiansen and Jan Smeets coming up on Wednesday and Thursday, 10 & 11 November, starting at 7am ICC.

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Game of the Day

Rd	Date	Commentator	Game	WATCH	FREE
4	Mon, 8 Nov	GM Jan Gustafsson	GM Hikaru Nakamura vs. GM Vladimir Kramnik
3	Sun, 7 Nov	GM Yasser Seirawan	GM Levon Aronian vs. GM Boris Gelfand
2	Sat, 6 Nov	GM Yasser Seirawan	GM Hikaru Nakamura vs. GM Pavel Eljanov
1	Fri, 5 Nov	GM Yasser Seirawan	GM Levon Aronian vs. GM Vladimir Kramnik

Standings after round 4

N	Name	Title	FED	FIDE	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	PTS	TPR
1.	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2801	*	½	.	.	.	½	1	1	.	.	3	2948
2.	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2763	½	*	½	½	.	.	.	.	.	1	2½	2854
3.	Karjakin, Sergey	g	RUS	2760	.	½	*	½	.	.	.	1	.	½	2½	2840
4.	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2741	.	½	½	*	.	.	½	.	1	.	2½	2859
5.	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2771	.	.	.	.	*	½	½	½	1	.	2½	2845
6.	Wang Hao	g	CHN	2727	½	.	.	.	½	*	.	.	½	1	2½	2857
7.	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2791	0	.	.	½	½	.	*	.	1	.	2	2763
8.	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2741	0	.	0	.	½	.	.	*	.	1	1½	2679
9.	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	2742	.	.	.	0	0	½	0	.	*	.	½	2435
10.	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2735	.	0	½	.	.	0	.	0	.	*	½	2425

Schedule

Rd	Date	Host	Commentator
1	11/05	GM Yasser Seirawan	GM Larry Christiansen
2	11/06	GM Yasser Seirawan	GM Alex Yermolinsky
3	11/07	GM Yasser Seirawan	GM Nick DeFirmian
4	11/08	GM Ronen Har-Zvi	GM Jan Gustafsson
5	11/10	GM Yasser Seirawan	GM Larry Christiansen
6	11/11	GM Yasser Seirawan	GM Jan Smeets
7	11/12	tba	tba
8	11/13	tba	GM Joel Benjamin
9	11/14	tba	GM Joel Benjamin

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