Tata Steel Chess R9: Aronian beats Caruana; Karjakin beats Carlsen

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Hello everyone,

Hope you didn't miss the excitement at the Tata Steel Chess during Round 9. 

The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament is taking place from January 13 to 29, 2012 in the sports hall Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee. There are three grandmaster tournaments with fourteen players each playing thirteen rounds at 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and finally 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 seconds/move increment starting with the first move of the game. Rest days are on January 18, 23, and 26. Here are the results of the round:

Group A: Round 9 - Tues. Jan. 24th

Hikaru Nakamura - Veselin Topalov ½-½

Magnus Carlsen - Sergey Karjakin 0-1

Gata Kamsky - Teimour Radjabov ½-½

Loek van Wely - Boris Gelfand ½-½

Vugar Gashimov - David Navara ½-½

Vassily Ivanchuk - Anish Giri 1-0

Levon Aronian - Fabiano Caruana 1-0

Standings after round 9 - Group A
1. Aronian, L. 6½
2. Carlsen, M.
Ivanchuk, V.
Radjabov, T. 5½
5. Nakamura, H. 5
6. Caruana, F.
Karjakin, S.
Van Wely, L. 4½
9. Giri, A.
Kamsky, G.
Topalov, V. 4
12. Gashimov, V.
Gelfand, B. 3½
14. Navara, D. 2½

Group B
1. Harikrishna, P. 7
2. Bruzon, L.
L'Ami, E.
Motylev, A. 6
5. Nyzhnik, I.
Tiviakov, S. 4½
7. Ernst, S.
Reinderman, D.
Vocaturo, D. 4
10. Cmilyte, V.
Lahno, K.
Potkin, V.
Timman, J. 3½
14. Harika, D. 3

Group C
1. Tikkanen, H.
Turov, M. 7½
3. Adhiban, B. 6½
4. Brandenburg, D.
Grover, S.
Sadler, M. 5
7. Goudriaan, E.
Paehtz, E.
Schut, L. 4
10. Tania, S. 3½
11. Danielian, E.
Haast, A.
Ootes, L. 3
14. Hopman, P. 2

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