MONACO, MARCH 28, NOYAN TAPAN. Competitions of 9th tour took place on March 27 in the Amber blind and speed chess show-tournament being held in Monaco. In that tour Levon Aronian competed with Vishvantan Anand (India). Aronian won in blind chess and Anand in speed chess. The leader is Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) who has gained 13.5 out of 18 possible points. V. Anand and Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) follow the leader with 11.5 points each. Levon Aronian is in 4th place with 10.5 points. Two tours have remained until the end of the tournament. On March 28, Aronian will compete with Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan). The next day the Armenian chess-player will compete with Vasily Ivanchuk.

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