As tournament continues, top seeds recieve punches from underdogs and 1st seed Uzbekistan (ELO average 2520) and 3rd top seed India (ELO average: 2424) are no exceptions of this fashion. 

 

Uzbekistan lost to 8th seed USA (ELO average 2368) by 2.5-1.5. Just nearly in one hour after 4th round starts, IM Sindarov (2513), 3rd board of the Uzbek team, made a incredible blunder by playing 15.Qb6 against FM Wang (2248) and the game ended rapidly in 16 moves. This tragedy in the link below shows us that even the masters and the prodigies at the top level are humans and sometimes they also lose their nerves and commit grave mistakes.

 

 

 

On the Board 2, India is also lost against 13th seed Belarus (ELO average 2314) by 2.5-1.5. The battle between IM Zarubitsky and GM Erigaisi was theoretically a deep one in which IM Zarubitsky played a novelty by an exchange sacrifice in an ending arising after Burn Variation of French Defence and the game fizzled out in a draw after fierce battle. Russia also won against Kazakhstan at Board 3 and occupied the 3rd place at standing with 3.5/4 points.

 

USA and Belarus are only teams who still continue their run by 4/4 and playing against each other at Board 1. The other unbeaten (with 3.5/4 points) team, Russia is playing against the wounded tiger Uzbekistan, tomorrow at 15:00 (GMT +3).