LEVON ARONYAN TO PARTAKE IN THE GRAND SLAM CHESS TOURNAMENT

armradio.am
19.06.2008 16:59

Armenian Grand Master Levon Aronyan will participate in the Grand Slam
chess tournament to be held in Bilbao (pain) from 1 to 13 September.

His rivals will be Vishwanathan Anand of India, Vasily Ivanchuk of
Ukraine, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and
Teymur Rajabov of Azerbaijan.

The fund of the final of the Grand Slam equals 400 thousand euros. The
winner will get 100 000 euros.