ARONYAN SECURES VICTORY WITH ONE ROUND STILL AHEAD
armradio.am
27.03.2008 13:54
Armenian Grand Master Levon Aronyan played a 1:1 draw with Vladimir
Kramnik of Russia in the 10th round of the 17th Amber Blindfold and
Rapid Chess Tournament underway in Nice (France).
Aronyan, thus, became the sole winner of the tournament with one
round still left. The Armenian Grand Master has 13.5 points in the
overall standing and 7.5 – in the rapid chess tournament.
In the overall standing Aronyan is followed by Vladimir Kramnik
(Russia), Peter Leco (Hungary), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) and Magnus
Carlsen ( Norway) who have 11 points each.
In the rapid chess tournament Aronyan has 7.5 points is 2.5 points
ahead of Ivanchuk, Carlsen and Leco who share the 2nd to 4th places.
In the blindfold tournament the Armenian Grand Master shares the 1st
to 3rd places with Kramnik and Morozevich.