LINARES 2009 9 TOUR

On the 1st of March 2009 in spanish Linares supertournament"s 9 tour games had been played. Magnus Karlsen, (2776,Norway) after his defeat Iт 8 tour from Levon Aronian (2750,Armenia ) in the game
with LeInIer Domingues (2717,Cuba) performed with Black sharp variant of sicilian defence that afforded
him together with V.Ivanchuk and L.Aronian with 5 points to stand firmly on the second line of tournament table.

 Other games in group finished in draw:

1. Vassily Ivanchuk (2779,Ukraine) -Teimour Radjabov (2761,Azefbayjan) -0,5:0,5
2. Wang Yue (2739,China) -Alexandr Grischuk (2733,Russia) -0,5:0,5
3. Levon AronIan (2750,Armenia ) -VIswanathan Anand (2791,India)  -0,5:0,5

 Tournament"s positions after the 9 tour:
   1.A.Grischuk-6

  2-4. V.ivanchuk,l .Aronian, M.Karlsen-5

  5. V.Anand -4,5

  6-8. L.Domingues, Wang Yue, T.Radjabov-3,5