LEVON ARONIAN DEFEATS FORMER WORLD CHAMPION VESELIN TOPALOV IN SEVENTH ROUND OF GRAND SLAM CHESS TOURNAMENT

Noyan Tapan

Se p 10, 2008

BILBAO, SEPTEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Six famous grand masters are
competing in the 21st category Grand Slam Chess Tournament in Bilbao
(Spain).

Armenian GM Levon Aronian beat the former world champion Veselin
Topalov of Bulgaria in the 7th round on September 9 and took third
place with 9 points.

Magnus Carlsen (Norway) was beaten by Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine),
while Temur Rajabov (Azerbaijan) drew with Viswanathan Anand (India).

Magnus Carlsen is in lead of the points table with 11 points. He is
followed by V. Topalov with 10 points. Ivanchuk has 8 points. V. Anand
and T. Rajabov earned 6 points each.