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At Tal Memorial 2009, Moscow, Russia - 4th to 19th November 2009

Round 9 - Saturday, November 14, 2009
Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ Vladimir Kramnik
Viswanathan Anand 0-1 Levon Aronian
Peter Svidler ½-½ Boris Gelfand
Ruslan Ponomariov 1-0 Alexander Morozevich
Peter Leko - Magnus Carlsen

Levon Aronian shocked Anand playing with blacks ... He defeated Anand in 25 moves ... With this Anand lost chance of sharing top spot ... Ponomariov defeated Morozevich in 27 moves and in other match Carlsen won his match to moved on tied 2nd place ... In end disappointing result for Anand ... With T2 position Magnus Carlsen become WR #1 in unofficial live ranking.

Tal Memorial 2009 - Final Standing

1 Vladimir Kramnik 6.0
T2 Vassily Ivanchuk 5.5
T2 Magnus Carlsen 5.5
T4 Levon Aronian 5.0
T4 Viswanathan Anand 5.0
6 Boris Gelfand 4.5
7 Ruslan Ponomariov 4.0
8 Peter Svidler 3.5
T9 Peter Leko 3.0
T9 Alexander Morozevich 3.0