Traditional chess festival “Amber 2009” is held from 14th to 26th March 2009 in Nice (France). Participants are the best chessplayers in the world: Anand, Kramnik, Aronian, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Karjakin, Leko, Morozevich, Radjabov, Wang Yue, Kamsky and the best Bulgarian chessplayer Veselin Topalov (FIDE World Chess Championship’s candidate against the world champion Viswanathan Anand).

Tournament playing rules are: It's double round robin tournament (rapid + blitz).

Round 4

After Round 4, the leader is Vladimir Kramnik with 5.5 points in combined standings.

Melody Amber 2007 – Kramnik won Melody Amber for the sixth time –
http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=40

Amber 2008 – Aronian won –
http://en.chessfish.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=604

Standings after Round 4:

Blind chess:

1.  Kramnik    3½
2.  Carlsen    3    
3.  Aronian    2½
    Leko       2½
    Morozevich 2½
    Topalov    2½
7.  Anand      2    
    Radjabov   2    
9.  Ivanchuk   1    
    Kamsky     1    
    Karjakin   1    
12. Wang Yue   ½

Blitz chess:

1.  Aronian    2½
    Kamsky     2½
    Morozevich 2½
    Radjabov   2½
5.  Anand      2    
    Ivanchuk   2    
    Karjakin   2    
    Kramnik    2    
    Topalov    2    
10. Carlsen    1½
11. Leko       1½
12. Wang Yue   1

Combined Classification:

1.  Kramnik    5½
2.  Aronian    5    
    Morozevich 5    
4.  Carlsen    4½
    Radjabov   4½
    Topalov    4½
7.  Anand      4    
    Leko       4    
9.  Kamsky     3½
10. Ivanchuk   3    
    Karjakin   3    
12. Wang Yue   1½

Official site: http://www.amberchess2009.com/

Translated by Asya Petrova (Thanks!)