The Round 9 games will be played Thursday at the 2014 Tata Steel Chess Tournament being held in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.
Grandmaster (GM) Levon Aronian—who plays first board for the three-time World Chess Olympiad champions and the previous World Team Chess champions, Armenia, and who is ranked second in the World Chess Federation (FIDE) ratings—will face GM Sergey Karjakin (Russia).
After 8 rounds, Aronian has tallied 6 points and he leads the tournament standings.
Karjakin is in second place with 5.5 points.
Levon Aronian is a three-time winner of the super tournament in Wijk aan Zee.
Last year, however, the Armenian GM finished the tournament in second place after 2013 World Chess Champion, GM Magnus Carlsen (Norway) who is ranked first in the FIDE ratings.
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