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

The Tal Memorial is the strongest tournament of the year and at category 21 (average Elo 2764) one of the strongest of all time ... It is a 10 players round robin with classical time controls – 40 moves in two hours, then 20 moves in one hour and then 15 minutes for in this phase.

After 4 rounds Kramnik take lead with 2 wins but Anand joined him at top spot with 5th game victory over Leko ... Now both having 3 pts ... Anand-Leko was a Semi-Slav in which the Anand made a novel 22 move ... Which was very difficult for Leko to work out and then his position steadily deteriorated ... He resignation at move 45 ... In 6th round Anand is playing with Blacks against Magnus Carlsen.

Round 5 - Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Boris Gelfand ½-½ Vladimir Kramnik
Levon Aronian ½-½ Alexander Morozevich
Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ Magnus Carlsen
Viswanathan Anand 1-0 Peter Leko
Peter Svidler ½-½ Ruslan Ponomariov

Round 4 - Sunday, November 8, 2009

Vladimir Kramnik 1-0 Peter Svidler
Ruslan Ponomariov ½-½ Viswanathan Anand
Peter Leko ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk
Magnus Carlsen ½-½ Levon Aronian
Alexander Morozevich ½-½ Boris Gelfand

Round 3 - Saturday, November 7, 2009

Alexander Morozevich 0-1 Vladimir Kramnik
Boris Gelfand ½-½ Magnus Carlsen
Levon Aronian 1-0 Peter Leko
Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ Ruslan Ponomariov
Viswanathan Anand 1-0 Peter Svidler

Round 2 - Friday, November 6, 2009

Vladimir Kramnik ½-½ Viswanathan Anand
Peter Svidler ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk
Ruslan Ponomariov ½-½ Levon Aronian
Peter Leko ½-½ Boris Gelfand
Magnus Carlsen ½-½ Alexander Morozevich

Round 1 - Thursday, November 5, 2009

Magnus Carlsen ½-½ Vladimir Kramnik
Alexander Morozevich ½-½ Peter Leko
Boris Gelfand ½-½ Ruslan Ponomariov
Levon Aronian ½-½ Peter Svidler
Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ Viswanathan Anand