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Armenian GM beats another champion

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After the fourth round Armenian and Russian GMs Levon Aronyan and Alexandre Grishchuk share the first place of the Linares Chess Tournament 2009. The Armenian GM beat the World Chess Rapid Champion Lenier Dominguez of Cuba. Before that Aronyan had beat Viswanathan Anand of India and tied with Magnus Carlsen (Norway) and Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan).

In the fourth round Magnus Carlsen drew the game against Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, and Vishvanatan Anand defeated Chinese Wang Yue.

Presently, Anand takes the third place with 2.5 points.