2 World Champions met in Tromsø

Two world champions met in the 4th round in Tromsø, Antoaneta Stefanova (former women’s world chess champion) and Jon Kristian Røyset (2223) who lives in Tromsø and won the World Championship in backgammon in Monte Carlo 2003.

In the 4th round of the Arctic Chess Challenger GM Kjetil A. Lie beat super GM Alexander Moiseenko and GM Bartlomiej Macieja beat second seed GM Bartosz Socko and they are the only players with a perfect score.

Here is the tournament table after 4 rounds:

1 GM Bartlomiej Macieja 2596 POL 4.0
2 GM Kjetil A. Lie 2536 NOR 4.0
3 GM Vugar Gashimov 2655 AZE 3.5
4 GM Mikhail Gurevich 2633 TUR 3.5
5 GM Vladimir Epishin 2587 RUS 3.5
6 GM Michail Brodsky 2595 UKR 3.5
7 GM Simen Agdestein 2582 NOR 3.5
8 GM Vladimir Burmakin 2581 RUS 3.5
9 WIM Katarzyna Toma 2275 POL 3.5
9 GM Alexander Moiseenko 2641 UKR 3.0

Magnus Carlsen won easily in the 4th round and will meet his teacher at NTG (a norwegian college for top athletes) Simen Agdestein in the 5th round.

Special report by Sven Wisløff Nilssen http://www.sjakkfantomet.blogg.no/

Official website: http://www.arcticchess.org/engindex.htm