ARONYAN THE SECOND IN MORELIA-LINARES

armradio.am
21.02.2008 14:25

Armenian Grand master Levon Aronyan played a draw with Grand Master
Alexey Shirov of Spain in the 5th round of the Morelia-Linares
Tournament underway in Morelia, Mexico. Levon Aronyan currently
occupies the 2nd position with 3 points, yielding only 0.5 points to
the leader of the tournament, Wishvanathan Anand of India.

In Round 5 Anand defeated Peter Leco of Hungary, Magnus Carlsen
of Norway scored a victory over Bulgarian Vesselin Topalov. Teymur
Rajabov played a draw with Vasili Ivanchuk of Ukraine.

After five rounds Wishvanathan Anand is leading with 3.5
points. Aronyan is the second with 3 points. Vesselin Topalov, Magnus
Carlsen and Alexey Shirov have 2.5 points each and share the 3rd to
5th places. Vasili Ivanchuk, Peter Leco and Teymur Rajabov share the
6th to 8th positions with 2 points.