LEVON ARONIAN IN 10th PLACE BEFORE LAST TOUR IN “AMBER” TOURNAMENT

Noyan Tapan
Mar 30 2006

MONTE CARLO, MARCH 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The games of the penultimate,
10th tour are over in the “Amber” chess tournament being held in
Monte Carlo.

Representative of Armenia Levon Aronian competed with Indian
chess-player Vishvantan Anand and was defeated with a score of 0.5
to 1.5. The first game by the rules of “blind” chess ended with
Anand’s victory, and the second game by the rules of quick chess was
drawn. Vishvantan Anand is the only leader of the tournament. He
gained 13.5 points out of 20 possible ones. Alexander Morozevich
(Russia, 13 points) is in second place, Francisco Valekho (Spain,
11.5 points) in third palce. L.Aronian gained 8.5 points and takes
tenth place among 12 participants. In the last, 11th tour Aronian
will compete with Pyotr Svidler (Russia).
From: Baghdasarian