Anand Joint Leader In Wijk

Vishy Anand scored his second win in the Tata Steel tournament in round 4 at Wijk Aan Zee to join Nakamura as joint leader with 3 points out of 4.

Anand sacrificed a piece against Wang Hao and obtained devastating compensation leading to a fine win.

Nakamura proved today that he can also battle hard for half-points, showing his endgame skills to hold Anish Giri to a draw in a tough game.

Lev Aronian swept to a quick and convincing victory against Nepomniachtchi to earn his first win of the event, while Vachier-Lagrave smashed Shirov to leave the adopted Spaniard with a dismal half a point return for his efforts so far.

L'Ami and Smeets shared the points in their encounter and Kramnik also managed to hold Grischuk to a draw.  Last but not least, Carlsen recovered after his disaster yesterday to just about steady the ship with a draw against Ponomariov.

The world champion proved too strong for Wang Hao in round four

A hard fought game between Giri and Nakamura  ended all square

All smiles at the start for Aronian and Nepomniachtchi, but the Armenian had the last laugh

In the B Group, leader Luke McShane was held to a draw for the first time, but he keeps his lead with 3.5/4 going into the first rest day.  Only Laurent Fressinet and Li Chao were winners in the group today.

Cool Hand Luke is all smiles after round four (all pics from the official Facebook page)

Group C was an absolute bloodbath, with only one game being drawn out of the seven played.  When the dust settled it was the Italian Daniele Vocaturo who now leads the field on 3.5 points.  Further details are available at the official website www.tatasteelchess.com

All the results from round four and the current standings are below.  Wednesday is a rest day, so the competition continues with round five on Thursday.  Look out for further live coverage at Chess.com/TV. (full schedule is there)

Rd 5: FM Elliott Liu and David Petty

Rd 6: IM Daniel Rensch

Rd 7: GM Melik Khachiyan

Rd 8: IM Shankland