Anand seems to be motivated in this event. He is now at +2 after 4 rounds! Carlsen defeated Ivanchuk with the Black pieces to take clear second. He could have defeated Aronian as well but missed the win. Here are the results of round 4:
Round 4: Wednesday, February 21st
Peter Leko ½-½ Levon Aronian
Vishy Anand 1-0 Alex. Morozevich
Vassily Ivanchuk 0-1 Magnus Carlsen
Veselin Topalov ½-½ Peter Svidler
Standings after 4 rounds:
1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2779 3.0
2. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2690 2.5
3-6. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2750, Svidler, Peter g RUS 2728, Leko, Peter g HUN 2749, Aronian, Levon g ARM 2744 2.0
7. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2783 1.5
8. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2741 1.0
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
A somewhat silly question perhaps, how do you arrive at these numbers, +1, -2 and so on?
Wins – Losses
Well if you play one game or many games and all the games are draw then you are at zero.
If along the way, you win a game then you are +1. and if you lose a game you are -1.
If 2 people have a score that is 1/2 point different then one player will be +1 over the other player.
If I were to tell you that Anand has 3 points you might say to me. well how many games were played to reach 3 points. Right now in Linares he has 3 points out of 4 games so that is +2.
If someone had 3 points out of 10 games we can figure it out. ave score for 10 games is 5. he has 3 so he is -2. He is 2 games below ave 5 games.
obviously if you have 3 points out of 3 games then you won all 3 games and are thus +3. The +3 says you won 3 games more than you lost. draws not counting.
lets say I won 3 and lost 2 and had 5 draws. well the draws do not count. with won 3 and lost 2 that becomes +1. I won 1 game more than I lost.
Right now
Anand +2 score 3
Magnus +1 score 2 1/2
Anand won 2 games and drew 2 games.
Magnus won 2 games, lost 1, drew 1.
If someone had 3 points out of 10 games we can figure it out. ave score for 10 games is 5. he has 3 so he is -2. He is 2 games below ave 5 games.
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I think 3 out of 10 is -4 not -2 🙂