An Amazing Round In Linares

It was a remarkable penultimate round in Linares today, with tremendous fights taking place in all the games!

Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) took advantage of a dubious pawn sacrifice from Aronian to win their game and catch Alexander Grischuk in a tie for first place. 

Anand gobbled up the Sicilian Poisoned Pawn against Grischuk, and after a strong Grischuk novelty on move 20 (!) the players slugged it out in a messy and complicated position.  Despite his novelty, Grischuk ended up in terrible time-trouble and was lucky to escape with a draw.

Yue and Dominguez clashed in the always interesting Grunfeld Defence, but it was Carlsen who will be kicking himself after letting Radjabov concoct a remarkable escape from a dead lost position.  If Carlsen had brought home the win, he would also have had a share of the lead, but instead remains half a point behind going into the final round.

Last round pairings: