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Lela Javakhishvili GM Heberla won the 2008 version of Banja Luka ahead of 77 year old Korchnoi, G N Gopal, Sergey Volkov and Zlatko Ilinčić. All the last game rounds were drawn except for the star of the day, Lela Javakhishvili, who incidentally finished with a very creditable score of 4.5/9 Final Standings: Heberla 6 Viktor Korchnoi, Zlatko Ilinčić, G. N. Gopal, Sergey Volkov 5.5 Lela Javakhishvii 4.5 Draško, Vukic, Savanovic 3.5 Jakovljevic 2

There are four leaders now at the top at the Reggio Emilia chess tournament 2007 - 2008. Harikrishna beat everybody's favorite whipping boy in this tournament, Navara. One suspects Navara is a bit lacking in confidence in this tournament. Hope he soon starts fighting back as he is capable of. Harikrisha's comeback after his first round loss to Almasi is already impressive. It bodes well for him for the near future where he will play in the GM Group B section of the Corus Chess Championship at Wijk aan Zee, which starts after Reggio Emilia. Tiviakov beat another favorite whipping boy, Godena while Ni Hua held Korchnoi to a draw. Godena obviously walked into Tiviakov's preparation in a French Defence game. He was slowly ground to his defeat. Standings after Round 4: Zoltan Almasi, Vugar Gashimov, Konstantin Landa, P Harikrishna - 2.5 Ni Hua, Mihail Marin, Sergei Tiviakov, Godena, David Navara - 2

Harikrishna beat in form Godena in the second round of the Reggio Emilia tournament. All the other games were drawn. Results of second round: Gashimov vs Ni Hua 0.5 - 0.5 Korchnoi vs Almasi 0.5 - 0.5 Marin vs Navara 0.5 - 0.5 P Harikrishna vs Godena 1-0 Tiviakov vs Landa 0.5 - 0.5

The strong Reggio Emilia tournament has started. There were two winners today: Mihail Marin beat Sergei Tiviakov and Zoltan Almasi beat Pentala Harikrishna. Gashimov vs Godena, Korchnoi vs Landa, Navara vs Ni Hua were drawn.