LEVON ARONIAN FOR THE FIRST TIME TO TAKE PART IN “AMBER” TOURNAMENT

YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The traditional chess tournament
“Amber” will be held in Monte Carlo on March 18-30. The peculiarity of
it is that 12 strongest grand masters hold small competitions among
one another. One of the games will be held by “blind”, the second one
by fast chess rules. Levon Aronian, the strongest chess-player of
Armenia for the first time received an invitation of taking part in
the competitions. The competitors of the World cup holder in the Monte
Carlo will be world champion Veselin Topalov (Bulgary), Vishvanatan
Anand (India), Peter Leko (Hungary), Vasili Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Pyotr
Svidler, Alexander Grishchuk, Alexander Morozevich (three from
Russia), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Luk Van Velin (Holland), Fransisko
Valejo (Spain) and Peter-Hans Nilsen (Denmark).
From: Baghdasarian