Overview
- Arjun Erigaisi, R. Praggnanandhaa and Pentala Harikrishna enter Round 4 tiebreaks at the Resort Rio Convention Centre seeking Round 5 berths.
- José Eduardo Martínez Alcántara reached the Round of 16 after agreeing a threefold-repetition draw with Alexey Sarana following his earlier win with Black.
- Levon Aronian advanced by drawing his second classical game against Radoslaw Wojtaszek to clinch the match.
- Alexander Donchenko, Le Quang Liem and Nodirbek Yakubboev also progressed, while 11 matches go to rapid and potential blitz deciders.
- Pranav Venkatesh and Karthik Venkataraman were knocked out in Game 2, leaving three of the 24 Indian starters still in contention for the title.