The last woman, American, and Chinese all lost today.
Wang Yue and Li Chao both forfeited a tie-break rapid game when they were 2 minutes late, both lost the tie-break match. Although four Chinese players qualified for round 3, none of them reached the final 16.
Giant-killer Wesley So brought down defending champion Gata Kamsky in the first game, and then held Kamsky to a draw in the 2nd game, meaning the world cup will have a new champion this year. However, Gata Kamsky already qualifies for the candidates tournament in 2010 because of his loss to Topalov in the last candidates match so the loss is not so bitter.
Judit Polgar, the strongest woman chess player in the history of the game drew twice with Boris Gelfand, the #1 seed, and pushed the match into tie-breaks, however she was overmatched in the rapid games and fell ahead of schedule 2.5-0.5
Here are the matchups for Round 4:
Board 1: Gelfand (1) 2758 vs Vachier-Lagrave (17) 2718
Board 2: Gashimov (2) 2758 vs Caruana (50) 2648
Board 3: Svidler (3) 2754 vs Shirov (14) 2719
Board 4: Laznicka (61) 2637 vs Mamedyarov (13) 2719
Board 5: Vitiugov (28) 2694 vs Karjakin (12) 2723
Board 6: So (59) 2640 vs Malakhov (22) 2706
Board 7: Ponomariov (7) 2739 vs Bacrot (23) 2700
Board 8: Grischuk (8) 2736 vs Jakovenko (9) 2736
Of the 16 remaining players, only 4 are rated below 2700. So will face his 3rd 2700 in a row (but lowest rated!)
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