Aronyan Defeated In Linares

ARONYAN DEFEATED IN LINARES

Panorama.am
15:34 06/03/06

The meetings of the 10th round took place in Linares Tournament of
20th category. Our compatriot, FIDE Cup winner Levon Aronyan was
defeated by Bulgarian chess player, world champion Vesselin Topalov.

Azeri Teymur Rajabov and French Ettien won victories over Ukrainian
Vasili Ivanchuk and Spanish Francisco Valiejo respectively. The
meeting Peter Leco – Pyotr Svidler ended in draw.

After the 10 rounds the tournament table is as follows: 1)Leco –
6.5 points 2-4) Aronyan, Topalov, Rajabov – 5.5 points 5) Svidler –
5 points 6-8) Ivanchuk, Valiejo, Bakro – 4 points.