ARONYAN IS AGAIN CHAMPION

Lragir.am
21 Aug 06

The Armenian chess player Levon Aronyan, champion of the Chess
Olympiad, won Mainz Open Chess 960 tournament, the news agency ARKA
reports.

Formerly Aronyan took part in this tournament but was not successful.

This time Levon Aronyan defeated Peter Svidler, Russia 5:3, whom he
had lost 3.5:4.5 last time.

Mainz Open Chess 960is was established in 1996 by the former chess
champion Bobby Fischer. The rules of the tournament initiated by
Bobby Fischer are the same except for the arrangement of chess pieces
at the start of the game. Fischerandom Chess Computerized Shuffler
shuffles the classical position of pieces just before the start of
the game. And the number 960 in the name of the tournament shows the
possible starting positions.