LEVON ARONIAN WINS IN LINARES TOURNAMENT

Noyan Tapan
Mar 13 2006

LINARES, MARCH 13, NOYAN TAPAN. Representative of Armenia Levon Aronian
had a perfect success in the chess super tournament held in the city
of Linares, Spain. The 23 years old grand master left all the rivals
behind and took the 1st place. In the 14th round held in 2 circles with
the 8 strongest chess players’ participation, L.Aronian got 8.5 points
leaving behind such famous rivals as world champion Vesselin Topalov
(Bulgaria), Temur Rajabov (Azerbaijan), Peter Leko (Hungary), Vasili
Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Peter Svidler (Russia), Ethien Bakro (France),
Francisco Valekho (Spain) are. When Levon Aronian won the world cup
late the last year, many specialists mentioned that he has a great
potential and may reach new and new successes in future. After that
he performed a deserving game in the city of Wejk ann Zee, Holland,
and now won the most authoritative world tournament in a perfect style.