At festival Moscow open 2009 the next, fourth round has come to the end. While to festival it is safely possible to apply expression: «Native walls help»- many students of chess chair of the Russian State Social University (RSSU), taking part in festival tournaments, started successfully.

The absolute indicator is kept by four sportsmen in the main tournament of festival «Open A». There are two students of RSSU among them. They are Ernesto Inarkiev the participant of a series of Grand prix of FIDE and Nepomniachtchi Ian the winner of prestigious festival «Aeroflot open». Pavel Smirnov (Russia) and Dmitry Svetushkin (Moldova) also have absolute indicator.

It should be noted that last year at festival Moscow open Inarkiev has show a 7 victories series, but having suffered defeat in a final decisive round from Artyom Timofeev the future winner of tournament, and he has appeared out of prize-winners.

 In female tournament «C» after 4 rounds the trio of leaders was formed. It is18-year-old Anna Muzychuk (Slovenia) a winner of last year's tournament, Natalija Pogonina the representative of a Russian national team and 17-year-old Olga Girya (Russia). Girya has won skilled compatriot Ekaterina Kovalevskaya in the third round, who supporting a national team for a long time. The student of RSSU Karina Ambartsumova has drawn with Natalia Zhukova (Ukraine) one of the main favorites of tournament and lags behind leaders on a half-point.

It should be remind that the first 24 games of tournament «Open A» and 6 games female «Open C» are accessible to viewing in real-time mode on the Internet on an official site of festival. Parties of leaders are comments by GM Alexander Kalinin for the spectators who have come to the tournament.

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