Aronian goes into last round with one-point lead over Carlsen

Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Alexander Grischuk 1 to 0, with 5 draws.
Including rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Alexander Grischuk 6 to 5, with 8 draws.
Only rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen tied Alexander Grischuk 5 to 5, with 3 draws.

In the tenth and penultimate round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament Levon Aronian kept his one-point lead over Magnus Carlsen with a 1½-½ win over Veselin Topalov. Magnus Carlsen defeated Alexander Grischuk 1½-½.
With one round to go Aronian has already won the blindfold competition, while Carlsen cannot be caught anymore in the rapid standings.
The € 1,000 Game of the Day Prize was awarded to Magnus Carlsen for his rapid win over Alexander Grischuk.

‘Complicated, as Ivanchuk would say’, Alexander Grischuk joked after his blindfold game against Magnus Carlsen. The Russian played against a variation of the Queen’s Indian that he also plays himself as Black. In fact he paid his opponent a compliment when he said that Carlsen got a ‘slightly better version than normal’. The upshot was that Black had enough initiative to make a draw and that was exactly what happened.

In the rapid game Carlsen tore down Grischuk’s Najdorf or, as the Norwegian put it ‘Black was busted out of the opening’. And in more diplomatic terms: ‘He has long-term problems and no counterplay, which usually is a problem in the Sicilian.’ Carlsen converted his advantage and shortly before he was to be mated, Grischuk resigned. Carlsen was pleased that with this win he clinched the rapid competition, but for understandable reasons he was not too happy with the total harvest of the day. Things would have been different after all if Aronian had not won his blindfold game.

Round 10 report courtesy of the official website