ARONYAN LEADER IN "AMBER"
Panorama.am
20:21 24/03/2008
In "Amber" international chess competition Armenian GM, the champion
of "Chorus Chess 2008" Levon Aronyan remains as the leader of the
competition after the eights round. He met with the Indian GM and world
cup holder Vishwanathan Anand and gained 10.5 scores on his account.
The chess player after Aronyan is the fellow GM Karlsen Magnus with
9.5 scores. The third player in the group of best is Hungarian Peter
Leko with 9 scores. The players from the 4-7th horizontals are Topalov,
Anand, Kramnik and Morozevich with 8.5 scores on their account.
Tomorrow L. Aronyan will meet with Russian Alexandr Morozevich. In
the ninth round Karlsen meets with Kramnik. Armenian GM can lose
his positions in the case his defeat with Morozevich and Karlsen’s
victory towards Kramnik.
Note that the "Amber chess competition started on 15 March and will
last till 27. It is being held in Nice, France.