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    Anand draws with Levon Aronian

    Hindu, India
    March 2 2008

    NEW DELHI: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand drew with Armenia's
    Levon Aronian in a well-fought game spread over 27 moves and stayed
    ahead after nine rounds of the Linares-Morelia chess tournament at
    Linares, Spain, on Friday.

    Anand's tally now stands at six points, half-a-point ahead of Norway's
    Magnus Carslen, who benefited from a late blunder from Alexei Shirov.

    In the day's other decisive game, Vassily Ivanchuk defeated last-man
    Peter Leko.

    In Queen's Indian, Aronian offered a pawn sacrifice to exert some
    pressure in the opening. Once Anand returned on the pawn after a
    questionable queen-move from Aronian, the players signed peace.

    The results: Ninth round: Levon Aronian (Arm, 5) drew with Viswanathan
    Anand (6); Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 5.5) bt Alexei Shirov (Esp, 4); Peter
    Leko (Hun, 3) lost to Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr, 4); Veselin Topalov
    (Bul, 4.5) drew with Teimour Radjabov (Aze, 4). 10th round pairings:
    Anand-Carlsen; Radjabov-Aronian; Ivanchuk-Topalov; Shirov-Leko.
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