LEVON ARONIAN IN 4th PLACE WITH 10.5 POINTS IN AMBER INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT OF BLIND AND SPEED CHESS

Noyan Tapan
Mar 28 2007

MONACO, MARCH 28, NOYAN TAPAN. Competitions of 9th tour took place
on March 27 in the Amber blind and speed chess show-tournament being
held in Monaco.

In that tour Levon Aronian competed with Vishvantan Anand
(India). Aronian won in blind chess and Anand in speed chess.

The leader is Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) who has gained 13.5 out of
18 possible points. V. Anand and Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) follow
the leader with 11.5 points each. Levon Aronian is in 4th place with
10.5 points.

Two tours have remained until the end of the tournament.

On March 28, Aronian will compete with Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan). The
next day the Armenian chess-player will compete with Vasily Ivanchuk.