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At the 6th Tal Memorial, Moscow, Russia

Round 9 - Friday, November 25, 2011
Hikaru Nakamura 0-1 Magnus Carlsen
Boris Gelfand ½-½ Viswanathan Anand
Sergey Karjakin ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk
Peter Svidler 1-0 Vladimir Kramnik
Ian Nepomniachtchi ½-½ Levon Aronian

Don't know if this is the sign of worry or not but very poor result for Anand in this strong field ... In the last round Carlsen scored win with Black over Nakamura which helped him to tie for the top spot with Aronian in points but Carlsen lifted title in tie-break ... Other hand Anand had another draw and he finished on 7th in the standing.

Final Standing
1 Magnus Carlsen 5½ pts
2 Levon Aronian 5½ pts
3 Vassily Ivanchuk 5 pts
4 Sergey Karjakin 5 pts
5 Ian Nepomniachtchi 5 pts
6 Peter Svidler 4½ pts
7 Viswanathan Anand 4½ pts
8 Vladimir Kramnik 3½ pts
9 Boris Gelfand 3½ pts
10 Hikaru Nakamura 3 pts