Standings after 9 rounds:
| 1. | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2703 | 5½ | |||||||||||||
| 2-3. | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2751 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 2-3. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2703 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 4. | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2714 | 4½ | |||||||||||||
| 5-6. | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2755 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 5-6. | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2670 | 3½ |
Round 10 pairings:
| Morozevich, Alexander | 1/2 Caruana, Fabiano | ||||
| Alekseev, Evgeny | 1/2 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | ||||
| Gelfand, Boris | 1/2 Ivanchuk, Vassily |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Can Caruana bring an upset?
A very interesting position!
Maxime Vachier Lagrave deserved to win this strong Biel Tournament with his first place sole position.
Maybe you will ask me, why He deserved it?
Well, it’s because he is lucky enough to survived the wild game of round eight against Morozevich, a very wild game that lasted 76 moves.
Maxime VL was tough enough to stand the tremendeous pressure on this game.
Surely we (the spectators) knew, Moro should won this game, but fate (two weak moves) gave another story.
Should Moro won that game, he will be the winner of this Biel Tournament of 2009 series.
Fabiano Caruana will get an important lessons for his future carreer from this tournament.