ARONIAN, GRISCHUK TIED FOR THE FIRST PLACE IN LINARES

armradio.am
23.02.2009 17:40

Leaders of the Linares 2009 Chess Tournament Levon Aronian of Armenia
and Alexander Grischuk of Russia recorded victories in Round 4 to
reach 3 points and continued to share the top spot jointly. Grischuk
got the better of Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan while Aronian grounded
Lenier Dominguez of Cuba.

With Aronian and Grischuk at the helm and Anand breathing down their
necks, Carlsen and Ivanchuk now share the fourth spot on 2 points
each having drawn all their games while Dominguez is sole sixth on
1.5 points.

Radjabov and Wang Yue share the seventh spot with just one point
so. Ten rounds still remain in the traditional tournament, which is
being played on a double round-robin basis between eight players.