Round 9 results:
| Alekseev, Evgeny | – Karjakin, Sergey | 1-0 | |||
| Svidler, Peter | – Leko, Peter | ½-½ | |||
| Bacrot, Etienne | – Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | 1-0 | |||
| Grischuk, Alexander | – Kamsky, Gata | 0-1 | |||
| Eljanov, Pavel | – Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | ½-½ | |||
| Gelfand, Boris | – Aronian, Levon | ½-½ | |||
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | – Akopian, Vladimir | ½-½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
What happened to Grischuk? How did he lose to Kamsky?
he played down to gata’s level…
he was winning. got into time trouble and blew it.