Round 9 Report: Kings Tournament 2011 Medias,Romania

ROMGAZ and the Chess Club Society "Elisabeta Polihroniade” of Bucharest are staging a double round robin tournament with six top GMs: the world's second highest ranked player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway; Ukrainian GM Vassily Ivanchuk, currently the world's number five; Sergey Karjakin, former child prodigy and youngest GM of all time; top US grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, clear winner of this year's Wijk aan Zee tournament; Teimour Radjabov, one of Azerbaijan's top GMs, and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, the best Romanian player. The competition is taking place from June 11th to 22nd 2011 in Medias, Romania.

   Round nine express report

Round 9: Monday, June 20, 2011
Hikaru Nakamura	½-½	Teimour Radjabov
Sergey Karjakin	1-0	Vassily Ivanchuk
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu	½-½	Magnus Carlsen
Tournament category XXI - ELO average 2758

Ranking crosstable after Round 9

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Carlsen Magnus	2815	NOR	***	½	1 ½	½ ½	1 ½	½ 1	6.0	3	0.5	23.50
2	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2776	RUS	½	***	½ ½	½ ½	½ 1	1 1	6.0	3	0.5	22.75
3	GM	Nakamura Hikaru	2774	USA	0 ½	½ ½	***	½ ½	1 ½	½	4.5	1	0.0	19.75
4	GM	Radjabov Teimour	2744	AZE	½ ½	½ ½	½ ½	***	½	0 ½	4.0	0	0.0	19.75
5	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	2662	ROU	0 ½	½ 0	0 ½	½	***	1 ½	3.5	1	0.0	14.75
6	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2776	UKR	½ 0	0 0	½	1 ½	0 ½	***	3.0	1	0.0	13.00

Annotation:
Tie Break1: The greater number of victories
Tie Break2: The results of the players in the same point group#results against
Tie Break3: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variable

Karjakin again defeated Ivanchuk and Carlsen caught
The leader Magnus Carlsen has reached a draw in a duel with Nisipeanu, but was able to beat Sergey Karjakin Vassily Ivanchuk. Recall that in the fifth round of the Russian has beaten former compatriot. Now Ivanchuk decided to play defense, Pirc Ufimtseva and quickly got into a difficult position.The party lasted for 22 turn.  SOURCE: Official Website