ARONYAN DEFEATED HIS UKRAINIAN RIVAL

Panorama.am
19:00 18/12/2008

The Super GM Tournament in Nanjing, China continues. In the seventh
round Armenian chess player Levon Aronyan met with Ukrainian Vassily
Ivanchuk. In the 39th step Aronyan defeated his rival. One of the
leaders of the tournament Bu Xiantszin met with Vesselin Topalov
and their game ended in draw. Armenian Sergey Movsisyan who presents
Slovakia was defeated by Peter Svidler.

Still Aronyan needs to gain half point to recover his status of leader
of the tournament.

In FIDE "Grand Prix" Armenian chess player Vladimir Hakobyan again
ended his game in draw. This time Hakobyan’s rival was Azeri Vugar
Gashimov.