When two Grand Masters, who have won all their games in a tournament, are in good shape and know the whole repertoire of his rival chess, measure their strength with each other and it is normal that the result ends in a draw.
That was what happened in the game between Vladirmi Epishin and Sergey Fedorcuk in the fourth round of the Memorial Narciso Yepes "chess.
The two players took a break and chose to save energy for the following rounds, shaking hands in just over two hours.
This result was used by Damljanovic and Alexander Rustemov Branco, who won two Grand Masters in their games and matched in classification and Fedorchuk Epishin three and a half points out of four possible.
After the four leaders of the tournament are placed nine players with half a point less and possibilities for the next round match in the lead.
Alfredo Giaccio, International Master Argentine living in Lorca, find the last rule of Grand Master is lacking for the maximum degree that exists in this tournament and could not get the draw against Grandmaster Aleksa Strikovic, in a hotly contested game .
Your choices are to achieve three and a half points in five final rounds at least.
For his part, Jose Carlos Ibarra totanero took a step back after losing a marathon game of four and half hours to Rustemov.
Ibarra squandered the lead that accumulated during the start of the game, and a final minor piece, knights and bishops, gave way to the best resources tactical Russian grandmaster, who won the first two editions of "Memorial Narciso Yepes."
Even so, it aims to achieve a Grandmaster norm is possible, but must make a final near-perfect competition.
Two chess Chess Club Lorca José Antonio Bautista Mendez and Juan Francisco Carrión, both with two points on the board, are the highest-ranked of the City of the Sun also have at their disposal to Ibarra, who takes them only half a point of difference .
Source: Club de ajedrez de Lorca