ARONIAN SCORES FIRST VICTORY IN CORUS CHESS 2009
PanARMENIAN.Net
23.01.2009 12:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian has scored his
first victory at Corus Chess Tournament 2009.
Aronian defeated Slovakia’s Sergei Movsesian in the fifth tour.
After five tours, Ukrainian Sergei Karyakin tops the chart with 3.5
points. Levon Aronian, Leinier Dominguez, Gata Kamsky and Jan Smeets
have 3 points; Loek van Wely, Magnus Carlsen, Sergei Movsesian,
Teymour Radjabov and Daniel Stellwagen have 2.5 points; Yue Wang and
Vassily Ivanchuk have 2 points. Alexander Morozevich closes the chart
with 1.5 points.
In the 6th tour, Aronian will play vs. Ivanchuk.