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After the high-drama of an exciting penultimate round, the final round at Linares proved to be less dramatic with all four games drawn, leaving the two leaders, Alexander Grischuk of Russia and Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine tied at the top with plus two scores of 8/14.
But Linares is Linares and there has to be one overall winner of the Spanish supertournament, so the title this year went - fittingly, as he led for most of it - to Grischuk in one of the best results of his career. The Linares method of deciding tiebreaks is first based on individual scores against each other (both draws), and secondly on number of total wins, with Grischuk having three to Ivanchuk's two.
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