Friday, February 20, 2009

Chess News
At XXVI Linares 2009, Spain (Avg. rating 2755) - from February 19th to March 7th 2009

Player Nation rating w-rank

Viswanathan Anand India 2791 2
Vassily Ivanchuk Ukraine 2779 3
Magnus Carlsen Norway 2776 4
Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan 2761 6
Levon Aronian Armenia 2750 11
Wang Yue China 2739 13
Alexander Grischuk Russia 2733 14
Leinier Dominguez Cuba 2717 23

Round 1 - Thursday, 19 February 2009
Viswanathan Anand 1-0 Teimour Radjabov
Levon Aronian ½-½ Magnus Carlsen
Lenier Domínguez ½-½ Alexander Grischuk
Yue Wang ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk

The World Champion Anand went to top beating Azerbaijani grandmaster and WR #6 Teimour Radjabov in a Sicilian Sveshnikov variation in 61 moves ... This was Anand's first game after the world championship match and had a perfect start ... This was the longest game of the day, other games were also hard-fought draws.

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