4th Norway Chess 2016 | Stavanger NOR Italienisch

Anish Giri's drawing streak came to an end as he defeated Pavel Eljanov of Ukraine, using the Giuoco Piano — mostly a way to avoid the Berlin these days. Rather surprisingly the players managed to get a new position on the board by move eight! That had to do with the move order: 7.Re1 is not the most popular, and 7...a5 had only been played once in a correspondence game.