Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian is leading Amber 2009 tournament after scoring victory over Ukraine's Vasily Ivanchuk and Russia's Alexander Morozevich in the 1st and 2nd tours respectively.

Today, Aronian will play vs. Gata Kamsky (U.S.)

Standing after 2 tours:
Levon Aronian (Armenia), Alexander Morozevich (Russia) - 3 points each; Viswanathan Anand (India), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) - 2.5 points each; Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Sergei Karyakin (Ukraine), Peter Leko (Hungary), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) - 2 points each; Gata Kamsky (U.S.), Teimour Rajabov (Azerbaijan) - 1.5 points each; Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) and Wang Yue (China) - 1 point each.