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Vallejo Pons continues to lead after the fourth round of the Pamplona chess tournament 2007. Standings after Round 4. 1. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2660 3 2. Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2646 2½ 3. Wang Yue g CHN 2703 2 4. Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2670 2 5. Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2644 2 6. Rodshtein, Maxim m ISR 2615 2 7. Khamrakulov, Ibragim S g ESP 2604 1½ 8. Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2673 1

Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain is in the lead after 3 rounds of the Ciudad de Pamplona chess tournament. He was held to a draw by the experienced Beliavsky. Khamrakulov was the lone winner today. He beat young Maxim Rodshtein. The other two games were drawn. Top seed Wang Yue was held to a draw, the third straight time. He has been fairly active this year and it remains to be seen if he can whip himself into action soon. The local players are stealing the thunder for now. Round 3 on 2007/12/24 GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604 1 - 0 GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 GM JOBAVA, Baadur 2644 ½ - ½ GM WANG, Yue 2703 GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 ½ - ½ GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 ½ - ½ GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 Merry Christmas break on 2007 12/25 CIUDAD DE PAMPLONA - MAGISTRAL Ranking after round 3 1 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 ESP 2½ 2 GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 SLO 2 3 GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604 ESP 2 4 GM WANG, Yue 2703 CHN 1½ 5 GM MOVSESIAN, Serge...

The young but strong Maxim Rodshtein of Israel beat a very strong Gabriel Sargissian in the second round of the Ciudad de Pamplona tournament. Local hero Francisco Vallejo also won over Jobava Baadur. Vallejo Pons forced Baadur to resign after 69 moves when the Georgian was a clear piece down in a slightly complicated end game where Baadur made several seriuos mistakes to lose a knight for almost nothing. The Rodshtein vs Sargissian game was a roller coaster. Rodshtein capitalized on a faulty simplification effort by Sargissian and later won an exchange. But he could not capitalize on it. But Sargissian gave the young Israeli another chance by making inaccurate moves and resigned the game again an exchange down. The other two games were drawn fairly early out of the opening in 21 and 30 moves. Results of Round 2 on 2007/12/2 GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 1 - 0 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 ½ - ½ GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 1 - 0 GM ...

The first round of the CIUDAD DE PAMPLONA tournament started with a well-deserved win for veteran Alexander Beliavsky against Gabriel Sargissian. Beliavsky capitalized on an early advantage to prevail against Sargissian. The other winner was local favorite Francisco Vallejo Pons against the last seed, Ibragim Khamrakulov. Top seed Wang Yue of China was held to a draw by promising Maxim Rodshtein of Israel. CIUDAD DE PAMPLONA - MAGISTRAL Round 1 on 2007/12/22 SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg 1 GM WANG, Yue 2703 ½ - ½ GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 2 GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604 0 - 1 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 3 GM JOBAVA, Baadur 2644 ½ - ½ GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 4 GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 1 - 0 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 Round 2 Pairings 2007/12/23 GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 - GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 - GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 - GM JOBAVA, Baadur GM WANG, Yue 2703 - GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604